Abstract
We conducted a survey on aging and habitat use of the sika deer (Cervus nippon) population, which is newly established in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. We compared the use times of forest and orchard of sika deer using cameras. There was significant bias in the number of shots across time periods: the number of shots increased to around sunset and sunrise in the forest, while in the orchard it increased in the middle of the night and before and after sundown. In addition, we compared the population structure and the frequency of imaging sika deer the first half (Dec. 2011–Nov. 2012) and the second half (Dec. 2012–Nov. 2013) of the study period. We found that imaging frequency increased in the second half to two times that of the first half. The shooting percentage of females increased.
