SINGAPORE: Once thought to be nearly gone from Singapore, the sambar deer is making a quiet comeback, with its population surging from 15 to 120 in five years.
The herd’s growth is raising new questions about how to manage a species that has no natural predators here and whose numbers show no signs of slowing.
Most people in Singapore would likely not have encountered one before. The timid creatures – outsized only by the moose and the elk, making them the world’s third-largest deer – typically emerge from their forest habitats under the cover of darkness to graze, taking off at the first sign of alarm.
