A baby milu deer was born Wednesday to the Dafeng Milu Deer Nature Reserve in Dafeng district of Yancheng city, east China’s Jiangsu province, making it the first baby deer born to the nature reserve this year.
In the Dafeng Milu Deer Nature Reserve, a newborn cub was seen managing to walk on its own without the company of her mother. With plum spots on the body, the cub appears to be in a good state of mind.
Ren Yijun, Director of the Technical Department of the Dafeng National Nature Reserve, Jiangsu Province, said that they found the first baby milu deer this year during our field survey. The little deer has bright plum blossom spots with soft lanugo hair. The little deer followed behind people, indicating that it has not yet established a mother-child relationship with the doe. Judging from the overall situation, this little deer was just born.
The birth period of the milu deer usually begins in March and peaks in April.
In recent years, the nature reserve authority has increased various types of plants, improved the habitat of the deer habitat, optimized the water system, and strengthened field monitoring.
Ren Yijun, Director of the Technical Department of the Dafeng National Nature Reserve, Jiangsu Province, shared that in the next period, they would strengthen patrols to avoid human interference, because the female deer needs to be quiet when laboring and they need to supplement sufficient food and nutritional needs to meet the needs of the female deer and her offspring. When very few female deer have abnormal conditions, especially when they are in difficult labor, they must rescue them in time and take measures to ensure that each mother deer can give birth to healthy deer.
Milu deer is placed under national protection at the top level. In 2021, the number of milu deer in the reserve reached 6119, accounting for 70% of the world's total, due to the world-leading breeding rate, survival rate and annual growth rate. about 2658 of them are living in the wild.
