| 21. | Early Portuguese, Dutch and British colonists generally let the hog deer alone as cinnamon and uninhabited land were plentiful.
|
| 22. | The park area falls in the natural habitat of urial and chinkara, and also provides suitable habitat to hog deer.
|
| 23. | After independence from the British in 1948, Sri Lanka accelerated cinnamon production and the clash with the hog deer began.
|
| 24. | Its total area of provides protection for waterfowl, as well as a variety of mammals including hog deer and nilgai.
|
| 25. | The reserve is also home to many types of mammals, such as hog deer, spotted deer, wild boar, and blue bull.
|
| 26. | Many hog deer show a dark dorsal stripe extending from the head down the back of the neck and along the spine.
|
| 27. | Each could be jailed for six months and fined 30, 000 rupees ( dlrs 450 ) for keeping endangered hog deer in captivity.
|
| 28. | In addition to the hand prints, a roughly half-meter ( two-foot ) long painting of a red hog deer is in the middle.
|
| 29. | Mammals found on the island include the native eastern grey kangaroo, swamp wallaby, koala and swamp antechinus, as well as the introduced hog deer.
|
| 30. | A 75-year-old Buddhist monk, Sudama Thero, patted a hog deer he said had been presented as a gift to his temple four years ago.
|
