Is there a differnece between a deer and a hart in shamanism?
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I don't know if the distinction matters in shamanism, but there is a difference between a deer and a hart.  A deer can be male or female, any species.  A hart is male, and generally refers to a red deer over 5 years old.
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I am a reiki master.  I have had a wild deer in the forest come out to observe the energy when i had a group of trainees with me at Bloomington, Indiana.  It was very special . the deer came right up into the clearing beside the road and stood looking at us from about 20 feet   we did not move.
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People have given you plenty of sites for lists of herding animals, but I thought you might be interested in this fact about deer, elk and moose.  The herding animals are the ones with the white rump patches.  The deer and elk have white rump patches and use these to identify each other and stay in the herd.  Moose, in the other hand, are solitary animals and have no white rump patch.
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a donkey is a unique organism while a mule is the offsrping between a donkey and a horse.\nMules are sterile and cannot breed.
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http://bboard.scifi.com/bboard/browse.php/3/7/619/1?\nNote the site is SCIFI.com. Take it for what its worth.\n\nThe animal you are referring to is not actually a deer. It is a semi-aquatic antelope, cetaformia anthalopus. Although sightings are rare, they are not unprecedented. This shy and beautiful animal inhabits the rapidly disappearing rain forests of Cambodia and has only once been collected. A partially devoured carcass was obtained from a Khymer Rouge commander by zoologist and former member of Students For A Democratic Society, Dr. J. Walden Pond (yes, his real name)in 1975. The preserved remains can be seen at the Berkeley Museum of Natural History by appointment with the Director of Special Collections, Dr. Stephanie Alderton. You can contact her at salderton@ucberkeley.edu.
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Forget about the whole "we're so much better than animals" thing. Our animal instincts still affect us, even though it's not apparent. The "fight and flight" instinct is still prominent in our systems.\n\nSo when man murders outside of "he'll kill me first" then it's a mental thing that they are willing to do. Does that mean that we're all capable outside of that, sure. We just decide that a person's life isn't as important as ours (which is what hunters have when they hunt, no hunter things of the animal as an equal). So if you can value a life over your own, then it's possible.
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Sitting in a tepee with three wives, the largest wife sitting on a hippo skin and the smaller wives sitting on deer skins? The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides?
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Soul is an old term for the psyche.  Spirit is the correct term and yes animals do have one.
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Depending on what subspecies of deer, like the white-tailed deer, is very fast to avoid predators and will attack a threat as a last resort using their antlers, they are very picky eaters only chosing the plants with the highest nutrientional value but have to eat a lot to store the fat supplies for winter as their coating is not very thick and provides little insulation. Such behaviours changeand is very dependant upon the animals physiology, deer have managed to adapt to human presence and the disturbance produced by vehicles but seem unable to adapt to the potential danger of vehicles and will run across roads to reach a new feeding ground (ex. the amount of deer deaths reported in the new forest due to car collision). They adapt their food source for during the winter to eating moss, bark, twigs and leaves. They communicate using olfactory communication, spraying pheromones, using the urine and faeces of other animals they can determine the physiological state of it. well, i don't have time to go into to much detail on that but if you go to the "source " website then a lot of useful information is on there.
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Antlers are shed periodically, like in deer for example, the males acquire them in the late summer, and they are shed during the winter. \nHorns on the other hand are more permanent, and usually grow continually, like in big horn sheep for instance
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I believe you wnat to know about shaman and shamanism.\nSee in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism\nand\nhttp://deoxy.org/shaover.htm
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I've heard that some people think they can tell the sex of a deer by looking at its tracks but I have never seen anyone who can do it with enough regularity for it to have any meaning.  The most often heard method is to look for wider tracks and the presence of dew claws.  Supposedly, the buck has a wider track with dew claw prints while the doe had a narrower track without dew claws.  This doesn't hold up in actual practice because the wider track only means that the deer was a bit larger than another deer with a more narrow track.  It has nothing to do with the sex of the deer.  A big doe with a yearling fawn will leave a wider track than the yearling fawn even if it is a male.  Now, I have to admit, if you see an exceptionally wide track with the presence of dew claws, it most likely is a buck simply because bucks tend to be larger than does.  A big deer leaves a wider track than a smaller deer regardless of its sex.  I've also heard that there is some difference between doe droppings and buck droppings but I have never seen anyone who could actually tell the difference.  Deer droppings all look the same to me and I have seen a lot of deer droppings.  Turkey droppings are another thing.  There is a definite difference between gobbler droppings and hen droppings but you didn't ask about turkey droppings.
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No, they are different animals.
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I think animals are way more intelligent than we can imagine, but certainly they are not as intelligent as us, but that's not like a reason to be dead or whatever, because they have a porpouse here you know, and it's how it's meant to be, they don't care that they aren't intelligent they just do what they are supposed to do, and it's not to think. Of course I wouldn't like to be a deer and the only thing that i could do was wait until I get killed by other animal. thanks god I'm a human
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Pretty sure that venison is just deer meat (ie. beef is bovine meat, bison is Buffalo meat).
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no they are a different species
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Nature tells us that homosexuality exists.  Are humans animals?  Are there homosexual humans?  Ergo...?\n\nThe fact that you have not quoted sources is of no consequence to me -- I am willing to take at face value that perhaps the cattle and lizards were setting domination patterns. I am curious as to how the motives of the lizards were determined to be "to humilate"?\n\nty kinney, of course, makes terrfic sense about the differences beetween humans and other animals and would worth be re-reading.  \n\nOf course, without any applicable citation, which would seem to be fairly easy to find, your insistence on the behavior of cattle weakens the argument, particularly when you assert such detail as "the male/male behavior documented never culminates it penetration! therefore it is not sexual in nature."  From your reaction to other posts, I assume you're after some sort of penetration?\n\nI must point out that an insistence on male/male penetration omits other non-dominance behaviors practiced by other animal species, such as courtship. \n\nTREE SWALLOWS:  Full cloacal contact has been observed by Wilson and Bull in  male Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), complete with  the “ticking” vocalizations which are apparently reserved for  heterosexual copulations in Tree Swallows.  They also note that dominance behaior among Tree Swallows is very different.\n\nLIZARD: A. carolinensis engage in both homosexual courtship and copulation -- with one male exhibiting the male behavior in courting being the mounter and the male exhibiting the female courtship behavior being mounted. Previous studies (Noble and Bradley in 1937) dismissed this as hierarchical behavior, but more recent observations (Cooper, 1977, and Sigmund, 1987) show a more thorough understanding of A. carolinensis society, including polygamy and consistent homosexual behavior in the absence of dominant males.\n\nBISON: Courtship, mounting, and full anal penetration between bulls is common among American bison. My Lakota brothers and sisters call them pte winkte —pte =bison and winkte is the word for two-spirit, their description of the transgendered  in their Nation.\n\nFEMALE CATTLE:  Mounting of female cattle in heat by other cows is common among domesticated cattle.  (Obviously, since no marital aids have been documented, no actual penetration occured.)  The same has not been observed among wild cattle in a study by Queensland College in Australia.  Although stress was cited by the observers, they also admitted the possibility of domestication as a factor -- so perhaps civilization figures into it.\n\nBONOBOS: Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann observed same-sex genital contacts in wild female bonobos.  They have already been mentioned here, I just thought I would give the citation, even though no penetration happened.\n\nZOO ANIMALS: The penguins, koalas, rabbits and others that have been documented as exhibiting homosexual behaviors have most often come from zoos or domesticated situations.  This does not necessarily indicate a corrupted or aberrant social system, but (Occam's Razor) they can be more easily observed.\n\nHYENAS: Actually, Ploss and Bartels have seen hyenas licking each other's genitals.  Hyenas are of particular interest in this discussion because, according the Bestiary of Barnabus, hyenas were believed to have predominantly homosexual sex, and were associated with homosexuals.  This view was strongly held in the time of Augustine, who was a zealot advocate of conversion.