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Nature 391, 22 (1 January 1998) | doi:10.1038/34045
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Animal welfare: The physiology of the hunted deer
Georgia Mason1
In the summer of 1997 one of Britain's largest landowners, the National Trust, banned the hunting of deer with hounds on its land. The decision, which caused a wave of protest from hunt-supporters, was based on a two-year study by Patrick Bateson and Elizabeth Bradshaw of how hunting affects the biology of red deer.
- Georgia Mason is in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
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