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deer in 2019 and 2021 (6.85 ± 1.26 and 7.29 ± 3.76, respectively). Total mortality among the 72 red deer that were transported to the acclimatization enclosure was 8.3% between 2019 and 2021, of which three females died in the livestock trailer, and three individuals after a few days in the acclimatization enclosure (2♀ + 1♂). During the study period, there were no recorded deaths of released red deer outside the acclimatization enclosure. The fence around the acclimatization enclosure was much weaker than designed (Gačić et al., 2018), due to which free-ranging brown bears and wild boars could enter the enclosure and access the feeding station, even when new groups of red deer were inside and the fence was closed. Red deer were released from the acclimatization enclosure through two openings in the fence whose length was 10 and 30 m (Fig. 3). Each year, these openings were closed a few days before the transport of the new group, until the day of |