Further studies are expected to explore how gelatins from sika deer can be effectively utilized as health promoting resources to prevent or reduce oxidative stress. The research was published in ...

From the outside, it looks like these jackdaws steal the fur from the sika deer to build their nests. However, it’s not stealing when the sika deer gets something more than just a haircut.

In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. For a thousand years the wild ...

A sika deer forages on a lawn in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 22, 2025. In order to create a livable habitat for the wild sika deer in Dalian, local authorities have taken ...

A move in Europe to classify sika deer as an invasive alien species is causing alarm among deer management organisations here. If adopted, the Japanese sika deer, common in places like Killarney ...

A conservation group has called for the introduction of a deer management plan after it recorded the dominance of the non-native Sika species. ReWild Wicklow has carried out the largest wildlife ...