deer on New Guinea?

[brian fleming <>]

I believe they are Rusa, introduced by the Dutch.
No idea when, but obviously in the colonial era.
Maybe some Chital (Axis) as well.

Anthea Fleming

On 12/01/2011 4:39 PM,  wrote:
> I was interested to hear on a DVD of David Attenborough's series Life a
> description of a Vogelkop Bowerbird's bower containing "deer dung". I
> knew that pigs had been introduced in prehistoric times to New Guinea
> (the island), but I didn't know about deer. When were they introduced,
> what species, and how widespread are they?
>
> John Leonard
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