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A stag that had just come out of a wallow, Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan.Photo: Manoj Nair
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A doe and its suckling fawn. Usually, one fawn is born after an eight-month gestation period and twinning is rare.Photo: Manoj Nair
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A stag in rut. An interesting behaviour shown by rutting stags are stamping in wet areas and wallowing in mud.Photo: Aditya Singh
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A doe in oestrous and a rutting stag, Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan.Photo: Aditya Singh
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A tiger advancing towards a sambar, not in the picture, in Ranthambhore.Photo: Gobind Bhardwaj
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A tiger chasing a sambar doe in Ranthambhore.Photo: Gobind Bhardwaj
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A tiger with its kill, a sambar fawn, in Ranthambhore.Photo: Gobind Bhardwaj
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A camera trap picture of a tiger chasing a sambar doe in the Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand.Photo: Bivash Pandav
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A magnificent sambar stag in the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala.Photo: Balan Madhavan
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A sambar doe in Korakundha Organic Tea Estate, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, during the rut season. The sore patch of the Bandipur sambar is missing here.Photo: A.J.T. Johnsingh
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A doe and a stag in the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka. Coinciding with rut, a sore patch develops on the ventral surface of the neck of both sexes of the sambar found here.Photo: Kalyan Varma
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A group of sambar in the Bandipur Tiger Reserve.Photo: A.J.T. Johnsingh
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This deer habitat in Chilla Range, Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand, seems to be degraded.Photo: A.J.T. Johnsingh
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Speeding vehicles have killed hundreds of sambar over the decades.Photo: Bivash Pandav
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