How to Use red deer in a Sentence

red deer

noun
  • It was likely made from elk or red deer bone.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Populations of lynx, moose, red deer and even free-roaming packs of dogs have rebounded.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • About 85% of Siberian tigers' diet consists of wild boar, red deer and sika deer.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 8 June 2020
  • All told, more than a dozen mammalian species have been cloned, including macaques, red deer, cats, and water buffalo.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • The bones of red deer, roe deer, and boar were made into wind instruments and decorative objects.
    — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2021
  • In any number of species—elephant seals, red deer, rattlesnakes—the privilege of mating is settled by a fight.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The team also found evidence of extensive cattle breeding, along with remains of wild goat, red deer and bear.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Outrageous headdresses replaced by the distant antlers of the estate’s red deer.
    — Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
  • And just as Albery found for the red deer, this isn’t because older macaques have lost more friends or because macaques with fewer friends live longer.
    — Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
  • The study scientists puzzled over why Mesolithic people used red deer and human skeletons for their weapons.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Solitariness was observed among elderly female red deer on the Isle of Rum.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Mammal species that have been introduced to New Zealand by humans, like the red deer, don’t seem to be able to pick up the slack.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Once a day time color photo was turned in, DNR officials recognized it as a red deer.
    — Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
  • And rare artifacts, like a plentiful number of red deer antler headdresses and masks, are intriguing.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Artifacts show its Neanderthal inhabitants hafted stone tools, butchered red deer, and may have made fires.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Their multi-pronged approach allowed the scientists to identify the meat as wild game, red deer and ibex, with a high degree of certainty.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2021
  • When red deer stags grow new antlers, for example, the cells at the tips produce receptors for insulin/IGF.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2012
  • Contemporaneous red deer bones have been found with signs that suggest the same cutting techniques that are used by butchers today were deployed.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This barrow also cuts across pits containing red deer antlers, which Neolithic groups used to make tools, combs, pins, weapons and ritual objects.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Lee’s artifact failed to produce results, van Bragt’s point was identified as red deer from 8,000 years ago.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Horses, ibex, reindeer, red deer, bison and chamois are prominent among the animals, which include just one or two possibly human forms.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The deer, which appeared to be a young red deer doe, was exhausted by the time it was brought onto the boat by Bowditch and his charter guest Morgan Lloyd.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The bones recovered from around the cave were later found to come from seven individual humans, though bones from red deer, badgers, cattle and horses were also mixed in.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • That proto-elk spread throughout Europe and into North Africa, becoming those continents’ red deer.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • In Scotland, red deer (Cervus elaphus scoticus), while not threatened, are an emblematic and charismatic species.
    — Richard Pallardy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
  • Grouse and red deer, in season, comes from Balmoral, along with pheasant and partridge from Sandringham, and more pheasant from Windsor, too.
    — Tom Parker Bowles, Town & Country, 15 May 2022
  • Choose to head out on a riverside hike through lush landscapes inhabited by red deer, ptarmigan, and snowy owl, or spend time exploring Braemar’s charming shops and galleries.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • That’s unusual in the UK, where wild boar and red deer seem to have made up a more significant proportion of Mesolithic people’s diets.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
  • Per the Guardian’s Severin Carrell, the carvings depict two male red deer with full antlers and several other animals believed to be young deer.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021
  • The fragments, from two sites near Bordeaux, were made from the ribs of ungulates, probably red deer (Cervus elephus) or reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2013

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