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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lucy Mangan

Digested week: A sadly corrupted deer and the coming cyborg apocalypse

A Highlands red stag rests beneath a tree
A Highlands red stag has been euthanised, possibly because people fed him sweets. Thankfully, the stag photographed here was not fed sweets. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Monday

A Highlands red deer known as Callum the Stag has had to be put down. His teeth had rotted, leaving him unable to forage for his natural diet, and his overall health had deteriorated largely, it is posited – though the National Trust for Scotland did not make the connection directly – because tourists kept feeding him their snacks whenever he approached them as they took his picture.

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