Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4406
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Child 1958 Ranzifu 7 27 June Patnueza River, Cape Sabine, Alaska Camera click frighten then but thy run only a few yards. Changing sheets of paper alert them also. One fawn with grey underpants instead of cream. Rust on top. 1625 not much feeding. Fawn with lost mother poured shirt. Herd in steady movement toward the river. Most feeding in the tussocks and sedge meadows. Estimate 5000 to have passed between Owl Ridge since I returned here. Fawn counts blind, muzzled fawns on rocks. I could have touched it. It almost stepped on me, sent rocks slowly down into blind. Fawn with bumps on head. Several adults and fawns seen eating Cassiope. 1635 rain stopping and the herd is slowing down and doing more feeding. One big black buck mostly thin molt has tremendous set of antlers. The feeding among the tussocks does not seem to be directed to E. sayanus but to the stuff in between tussocks. Another badly coughing one, this one at 1648-50:85 passed in 2 min along a line from here to Owl Ridge. Herd only feeding slowly.