Sambar

The sambar is a large deer with a shaggy coat that runs from yellowish brown to dark grey, usually uniform in colour, though some subspecies have chestnut marks on the rump and underparts. The tail is relatively long for a deer, generally black above with a whitish underside. Adult males and pregnant or lactating females have an unusual hairless, blood-red spot halfway down the underside of the throat, which sometimes oozes a white liquid. Antlers are typically up to 110 cm long (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is distributed from the south-facing slopes of the Himalaya in Nepal, Bhutan and India to Southeast Asia and southern China. In India, home ranges have been recorded as about 1,500 ha for males and 300 ha for females. Sambar are nocturnal or crepuscular, and in some areas the average herd is only three or four animals, typically a female, her latest young and perhaps a subordinate immature female. When alarmed, a sambar stamps its feet and gives a ringing call known as pooking or belling (Wikipedia, general species account).