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Year s 1st deer fawn born in Nara Park in western Japan The first deer fawn to be born this year in Nara Park, a popular tourist attraction in western Japan, was shown to the press Monday by a local preservation organization.
The newly born female fawn, who was spotted near her mother on Sunday, will be displayed at Rokuen, a facility in the park where deer are kept, from June 1 to 30. She weighs around 3,800 grams and is about 60 centimeters long.
She will be released into the park with other deer in late July, according to the Nara Deer Preservation Foundation.
A deer in Nara Park in November 2020 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
NARA A man has been arrested here under suspicion of violating the Cultural Assets Preservation Law for killing a deer God’s sacred messenger according to ancient myth an act that once was a capital offense in Japan.
Nara prefectural police on March 2 arrested Hayato Yoshii, 23, a construction assistant in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, in connection with the death of a deer last month.
Police said sometime around Feb. 7, Yoshii smashed a sharp, thick object against the head of a doe estimated to be 11 years old, at Nara Park, a major tourist attraction in the city home to many deer.