Thread: Tree bark peeled off question

Originally Posted by Bill999

There was plenty of feed around and this was fresh chewing like the bark was tasty and only in a specific area like it was a bedding down area

My thoughts are
1 possum (but the teeth were abit big)
2 deer but why eat bark?
3 goat because they can climb trees when necacary and stand tall on their back legs

The gouges looked like what hares do to newly planted trees except vertical
And were obviously done to remove the bark, which wasn't in a pile under the trees

Area was hotsprings road katikati right up the top of the hill before the east west track meets the Tauhua or something similar to that

Was up there in the weekend saw alot of this myself a mate I was with said the same, goat or deer