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Dr Bradshaw and Professor Bateson reply:

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2023

Patrick Bateson*
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Cambridge, UK
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Edmund Marriage raises three main concerns about the welfare implications of stalking: specifically, the proportion of deer that escaped injured, the length of time taken to die by body-shot deer, and the effect of disturbance on the behaviour of deer.

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© 2001 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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