Sambar

The sambar is a large deer with a shaggy coat from yellowish brown to dark grey, usually uniform though some subspecies have chestnut marks on the rump and underparts. The tail is relatively long for a deer, black above and whitish below. Adult males and pregnant or lactating females have an unusual hairless, blood-red spot on the underside of the throat (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is distributed from the south-facing slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal, Bhutan and India to Southeast Asia. Sambar are nocturnal or crepuscular, and herds are often only three or four animals, typically a female, her latest young and perhaps a subordinate immature female. When sensing danger one stamps its feet and gives a ringing call called pooking or belling.