Red deer stags (Cervus elaphus) in a shower of summer rain. The stags' antlers are in velvet, which means that they are not fully grown. Their coats a

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Red deer stags (Cervus elaphus) in a shower of summer rain. The stags' antlers are in velvet, which means that they are not fully grown. Their coats are moulting into the summer coat. Photographed in the Cairngorms National Park, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in June.

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