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@£&$=^-... looking at the viewer.] ...-^=$&£@
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-......... in the north, the deer is often used as .........-
.......... a symbol for the forest's agency, or ..........
-......... its self-knowledge. watching eyes. .........-
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=^-....... warmer regions instead ascribe it the .......-^=
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£&$=^-.... awake, scrapie-like behavior). ....-^=$&£
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£&$=^-.... the deer is a cross between a horse and ....-^=$&£
&$=^-..... a dog. it bears a resemblance to a .....-^=$&
$=^-...... young salix tree, and has a ......-^=$
=^-....... sweet-smelling nose, like honey. .......-^=
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-......... the horns of a deer is called antlers. .........-
.......... they have a complex fractal shape, and ..........
-......... are believed to enable the deer to .........-
^-........ "fold" through passages which should be ........-^
=^-....... too narrow for them. antlers from dead .......-^=
$=^-...... deer seem to lose this power. ......-^=$
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£&$=^-.... a deer's heart has two chambers, where ....-^=$&£
@£&$=^-... it stores all the secrets it might see ...-^=$&£@
#@£&$=^-.. during the course of it's life. with ..-^=$&£@#
##@£&$=^-. age the secrets will harden into a .-^=$&£@##
#@£&$=^-.. caramellized structure, which will ..-^=$&£@#
@£&$=^-... eventually block the flow of blood, and ...-^=$&£@
£&$=^-.... kill the deer. ....-^=$&£
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-......... side, looking the other way. its .........-
^-........ antlers are bloodied.] ........-^
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