关键词: 海南坡鹿, 仔鹿, 卧息地选择

Abstract: Total 14 bedding rest places for the fawn of Hainan eld's dear were：found during the birth seasons from October to December in 1986 and 1987．The fawns select bedding rest places by themselves and are not intervened by their mothers．The fawns prefer grass slopes with Imperata cylindrica，Heteropogon contortus under the canopy of the secondary deciduous seasonal raining forests when they select their badding rest places．Twelve out of fourteen bedding rest places were found in this habitat type.which proportion is much higher than those of the available part and other habitat types in the study area．The fawns randomly select the grass slopes with Cleistanthus sp．and I．cylindrica as their bedding rest Places．
The bedding rest places happen in the environment in which the densities of tree and shrubs are of 0.5 -2 individuals per 10 square meters and of 3-6 per square meters respective1y, and grass with yellowish color is over 50 cm high．No any correlatlvity is existed between bedding rest place and water resource．The influcnce of wind direction on the slope aspect of the bedding rest places could not be rejected．

Key words: Hainan eld's deer (Cervus eldi hainanus), Fawn, Selection of bedding rest place