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Going stag to the park
A red deer stag looks for food in a bracken thicket after sunrise in Richmond Park on Oct. 27, in London, England. Richmond Park is the largest of the capital's Royal Parks and home to 630 red and fallow deer.
The last stag hunt: 45 years of stalking deer in Scotland
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Head stalker Peter Fraser leads a shooting party up to Milstone Cairn on the Invercauld Estate in Braemar, Scotland, on Sept. 28, 2012.
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Peter Fraser prepares to load a freshly shot stag onto a pony.
After forty five years as a professional stalker, and 43 years as the head stalker on the Invercauld Estate, Peter Fraser is working his last red deer stag season before his retirement in November. (Stalking is the term used in Scotland for hunting and shooting deer.) The stalking season runs from July until October.
According to the Invercauld Estate website, "the land has been in the ownership of the Farquharson family for many centuries and extends to approximately 200 square miles of spectacular scenery. The Estate is managed commercially but with great respect for the natural environment."
Read more about gamekeepers and Peter Fraser on the Scottish Gamekeepers Association website.
Editor's note: This series of pictures was made available Oct. 1.
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Peter Fraser, right, and his hunting party look down on a stag at Loch Kander on the Invercauld Estate on Sept. 29, 2012, in Braemar, Scotland.
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Peter Fraser drags a shot stag at Milstone Cairn on the Invercauld Estate on Sept. 28, 2012.
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Peter Fraser disembowels a deer in Corrie Kander on the Invercauld Estate on Sept. 29, 2012.
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Peter Fraser stands in the larder doorway on Auchallater farm on the Invercauld Estate on Sept. 29, 2012.
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Deer raid bird feeder in Tennessee
Deer eat from a bird feeder on Aug. 18, in Nashville, Tenn.
Deer wanders through evacuated neighborhood in Colorado Springs
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Smoke from the Waldo Canyon fire blankets a hill in the background as an antlered deer walks through a neighborhood recently evacuated due to the wildfire in Colorado Springs, Colorado on July 2, 2012.
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The worst fire season in recent history is taking its toll with large fires burning thousands of acres in Colorado while others consume areas in Montana, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.
Kari Huus of msnbc.com reports from Denver — It's been just a week since the Waldo Canyon fire crested the mountain range next to Colorado Springs and roared toward the state’s second-largest city.
In that time, 32,000 people have been evacuated. Two people have died in the blaze, and 346 homes have burned to their foundations. Firefighters have been battling 24-7, and with the help of shifting winds, have the fire 55 percent contained, according to the National Interagency Coordinating Center.
While the fire threat is currently waning and many evacuees are returning home, the damage, dislocation and trauma from the wildfire remain. Read the full story.
Volunteers from the American Red Cross explain what goes into the relief effort around the wildfires at Colorado Springs.
When a mother goose loses her lifelong mate, a friendly deer appears to step in
WGRZ.com reports: "In an unlikely twist of fate, an adult deer has befriended the mother goose, taking over the role of protector."
What do you think? Is this a match made in heaven, or just a weird animal kingdom coincidence?
Craig Cygan courtesy of WGRZ.com
A deer seems to protect a mother goose who lost her mate in a cemetary in Buffalo, NY.
Read the full story from WGRZ here, and watch the video below.
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A deer seems to protect a mother goose who lost her mate in a cemetary in Buffalo, NY.
A goose that lost her mate has found a friend in a deer that guards her nesting place. Msnbc.com's Keva Andersen reports.
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Actor Bill Murray watches a deer cross the tee box on the 3rd hole at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am- Round Two at the Spyglass golf club on Feb. 11 in Pebble Beach, Calif.
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A deer forages for food in the early morning sun as cooler temperatures bring on the autumn season at Dunham Massey on on October 11, 2010 in Lymm, England. Shortening daylight hours and cooler weather brings on the rutting season for Red and Fallow deer herds and Autumn foliage colours across Britain.
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A stag and doe interact during the rutting season in a wildlife park in Aurach near Kitzbuehel, in the Austrian province of Tyrol on Friday, Oct. 1.