DEER LOCKED IN COMBAT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 2

DEER LOCKED IN COMBAT

' STRUGGLES TO GET FREE VANCOUVER, June 1. In Canada, the big-game country of North America, the finding in the woods of skeletons of two male ueer, with, antlers firmly locked together, is a comparatively lrequent occurrene. These remains are taken to indicate that- the bucks became locked in combat, and that, when thus rendered helpless, death came quickly from wolves or by exhaustion. Barely, however, have woodsmen come upon live deer so entangled, and probably the first occasion upon which the combatants have been freed occurred recently in one of the game sanctuaries ol the Cadaqian National Barks. In this instance, the officer in 1 charge of the cattalo enclosure at the buffalo national park at Wainwxight, Alberta, where the mule deer are numerous, noticed two bucks locked together by their ant lei's and unable to get free, in spite of desperate struggles. Being alone at- the time, the official was not able to deal with the situation hut next morning, with three others to assist him. he was able to rope the combatants and separate them, unharmed.