Another video from Japan's Nara Deer Park has gone viral on Instagram. One video from the park went viral earlier this fall, which showed two Sika bucks charge, and ram into a park visitor.

There is one common factor in the incidents. Researcher issues warning over dangerous increase in encounters between humans ...

Adolescent female monkeys in Japan have repeatedly engaged in sexual behaviors with sika deer, for reasons that are not yet clear, according to researchers who study macaque behavior. That report ...

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Far mVille released the Sika Deer as another Japanese themed animal with tonight's updates. The Sika Deer is also known as the "Spotted Deer" or "Japanese Deer" and can be found throughout East Asia.

"The Japanese government has been taking steps to reduce the local deer population. Up until the 1980s, the hunting tradition in Shiiba Village played a key role in controlling the sika deer ...

The resident Japanese macaque monkeys and sika deer have developed a close, mutually beneficial inter-species bond. The macaques ride around the island on the deers’ backs like miniature jockeys, ...

The photo, taken on Japan's Yakushima Island, is titled "Forest Rodeo." Ohshima snapped the photo just after the monkey catapulted itself onto a sika deer, using a tree as a springboard ...

Dozens of plants on a small Japanese island may have shrunk themselves to avoid hungry deer – suggesting that persistent pruning by herbivores could drive the evolution of dwarf plants.

shot by Atsuyuki Ohshima in a Japanese forest, captured the rare — but not unheard-of — interaction between a macaque and a deer. Atsuyuki noticed a sudden movement of the deer, a sika stag ...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine, Martin Heydon has said that Sika deer are not currently classed as an invasive species.