The government has designated the deer in the park in Nara Prefecture as a natural monument. Tourists feeding rice crackers to the deer is a common sight. A team of scientists from Fukushima ...
NARA--Authorities ... to visitors in the park. The call-outs were done in English and Chinese, as well as Japanese. The deer are designated as a national natural monument, and any act that ...
the sacred Japanese sika deer (Cervus nippon), protected for over a millennium, has recently seen a population surge around Nara Park. Genetic analysis reveals mixing between sacred deer from the ...
One of the deer that are beloved by sightseers is seen at Nara Park on Dec. 20, 2024. (Mainichi/Yasuhiro Tanabe) NARA -- Nara Park in this western Japan city is enjoying a tourist renaissance in ...