An injured Sambar deer was found along a nature trail with its antlers stuck on a tree branch. The animal succumbed to its injuries before rescuers arrived.<\/p>\n
In a post on the SG Wildlife Facebook group<\/a>, user Karen Chim said that the injured animal was spotted along a trail in Chestnut Nature Park, which lies on the fringe of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n The post included a 27-second video showing the deer lying on its side among the foliage with its neck pulled taut, and its antlers stuck on a tree branch.<\/p>\n The deer’s legs flail helplessly as the camera pans to show its right foreleg bent at an unnatural angle, with blood visible at its joint.<\/p>\n A passer-by urges the deer to relax, while others are heard confirming the location of the incident.<\/p>\n In the caption, the netizen added that the National Parks Board (NParks) had been alerted to the incident.<\/p>\n Another post by Facebook user Save Sambar Deer<\/a> said the adult male deer was involved in a road accident near Bangkit Loop. The animal was said to have succumbed to its injuries before NParks officers arrived.<\/p>\n Both posts drew hundreds of reactions, with commenters urging motorists and authorities to take action.<\/p>\n Animal’s injuries ‘consistent with vehicular collision’: NParks<\/p>\n In response to Stomp’s queries, NParks group director of wildlife management How Choon Beng confirmed that the agency was alerted to the injured animal at around 10am on Jan 20.<\/p>\n “The deer had sustained critical injuries consistent with a vehicular collision and succumbed to its injuries,” Mr How said.<\/p>\n A 2021 NParks study<\/a> estimated that there were about 15 wild Sambar deer in Singapore. The species is believed to be at high risk of extinction in the wild.<\/p>\n In a separate incident, a Sambar deer was killed on the Bukit Timah Expressway<\/a> in the early hours of Sept 2, 2025. Another was put to sleep after being severely injured<\/a> in a road accident along Mandai Road on July 24 that year.<\/p>\n Members of the public can contact NParks’ 24-hour Animal Response Centre at 1800 476 1600 if they encounter wildlife in need of urgent rescue.<\/p>\n Stomp has reached out to Karen Chim and the police for more information.<\/p>\n Get more of Stomp’s latest updates by following us on:<\/p>\n Join the conversation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An injured Sambar deer was found along a nature trail with its antlers stuck on a tree branch.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[20233,64,63,224724,23087,128,179833,338],"class_list":["post-428562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-central-catchment-nature-reserve","tag-sambar-deer","tag-science","tag-tnp-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}