British Deer Hunting in Chennai and the British: GCP's sense of humour!

'This tells the story of the deer in the British period', ends a panel that explains the Gun Spotted Deer kept for display at the Children's Park, Guindy. This tongue-in-cheek comment caught my eye while ona visit with family! I never would have expected the babus of our departments, that too the forest department to have such sense of humour.

Aparently this large metallic deer on wheels was used as a moving shooting targer and the idea was to shoot the holes in the deer's body (10 of them informs the panel) before the British babus could indulge in the shooting of the real ones. I think they should supplement this information with the total number of deer that were perhaps thus shot by the Brits.