Chinese Water Deer

Only introduced to the UK in the late nineteenth century, the Chinese water deer is a shy and enigmatic species that, since escaping from deer parks, has established itself in the wild mainly in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. Considered one of the leading experts on these tusked deer - which are native to fertile river bottoms in Korea and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) valley in China - Paul Childerley has written an authoritative, all-encompassing guide that explains how these...