Image of Sambar

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The Sambar Deer (Rusa unicolor unicolor) A Peculiar Neck Wound - The Sambar Deer,Female MTR, Lower Nilgiris, Nov 2014 A Peculiar Neck Wound & a Hairless Patch with an unusual hairless, blood-red spot located about halfway down the underside of their throats seen in the Adult males and females Sambars of Nigiris & Deccan Plateau ..... The wound is apparently glandular in nature and sometimes oozes a white liquid. From what I heard from locals it is only seen in the Sambars of the South & is there only for a certain period of time of the year....... Some say it is hormonal others that it is some sort of an infection others genetics............. Did not get the clear and confirmed answer...... Thought of sharing...... may be someone out there can enlighten me more.....