ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank to numerous hunters, Tsuyoshi Takeshita, Takuhiko
Suzuki and Shota Yamamoto who provided samples of sika deer for us. Most
of the deer samples were collected as a part of the Komoro Wildlife
Product Commercialization Project. We are grateful to the Advanced
Analysis Center of National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
(NARO) supporting the experiments involving stable isotope analysis. We
thank Y. Suda and the members of the Wildlife Damage Management
Laboratory at Central Region Agricultural Research Center, NARO for
their constructive suggestions and help with the experiments. This work
was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19K20492.