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Occupational hazard for Father Christmas

No, this is not the dejected figure of Santa on Christmas morn, awaiting the tender ministrations of Mrs Claus after a run-in with a reindeer on ritalin. Reindeer have large, wide hooves, while the cloven-hoofed beast behind these injuries, the fallow deer, is smaller, with sharp, small hooves. Figure A shows the back of a farmer who was trampled by a fallow deer and Figure B shows the hooves of the deer.

Images as described above

The deer assures us that the whole thing was an accident.

David J Williams
Professor and State Pathologist
Brisbane, QLD

 

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