Sambar

The sambar is a large deer with a shaggy coat from yellowish brown to dark grey, usually uniform though some subspecies have chestnut marks on the rump and underparts. The tail is relatively long for a deer, black above and whitish below. Adult males and pregnant or lactating females have an unusual hairless, blood-red spot on the underside of the throat (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is distributed from the south-facing Himalayan slopes in Nepal, Bhutan and India to Southeast Asia. Sambar are nocturnal or crepuscular, and herds are often just three or four animals, typically a female, her latest young and perhaps a subordinate immature female. Sensing danger, one stamps its feet and gives a ringing call called pooking or belling. Nationally Vulnerable (Nepal National Red List 2011).