Chinese Water Deer (Hydropotes inermis). Female seeking fallen Horse Chestnut fruits (Aesculus hippocastanum).

---

Chinese Water Deer (Hydropotes inermis). Free ranging, female seeking fallen Horse Chestnut fruits (Aesculus hippocastanum), to crunch and eat. October. Whipsnade Zoo ZSL. Bedfordshire. England. UK.

---

Size: 5616px × 3744px
Photo credit: © Joe Blossom / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: abbey, aesculus, animal, animals, artiodactyla, asia, asian, autumn, bedfordshire, capredinae, cervid, cervidae, chestnut, chestnuts, chew, chewing, china, chinese, coat, contact, crunch, deer, eat, eating, endangered, england, eye, fall, fallen, feed, feeding, female, feral, food, format, fruit, fruits, fur, hippocastanum, horizontal, horse, hydropotes, inermi, inermis, introduced, korea, landscape, london, mammal, mammalia, mammals, native, nutrition, pelage, portrait, society, threatened, water, wetland, wetlands, wild, wildlife, woburn, zoo, zoological, zsl