The Aichi Prefectural Government is using GPS to track wild deer and research new ways to keep them from damaging crops in mountainous areas.
Last month, the Aichi Prefectural Forestry Technology Center in the city of Shinshiro attached a collar with a tracking device to a doe estimated to be around 1 year old. They nicknamed her Shikami.
A similar device was placed on a buck named Shikao in February, but that deer was shot and killed.
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