Sika deer (Cervus nippon Temmink) visiting feeding grounds as a semi-wild animal in Bezborodovo hunting enterprise

We analyzed the visitings of the artificial feeding grounds in Bezborodovo Hunting Enterprise by the semi-wild sika deer. Visiting at the dark predominated with seasonal and sex and age related biases. The visiting is influenced by the natural feeding resources, seasonal shift in the mineral intake as well as by mating peculiarities. We give the sex-age distribution of the sika deer population in the Bezborodovo Hunting Enterprise with the special attention to the intra- and interspecific interactions in the paddock.