10.1071/ANv56n6toc ANIMAL PRODUCTION SCIENCE CONTENTS Volume 56, Issue 6, 2016, 941–1015 8th INTERNATIONAL DEER BIOLOGY CONGRESS Foreword i The efforts to re-establish the Chinese water deer population in Shanghai, China Min Chen, Chaofei Liu, Xin He, Enle Pei, Xiao Yuan and Endi Zhang 941–945 Deer antler: a unique model for studying mammalian organ morphogenesis Zhao Haiping, Chu Wenhui, Liu Zhen and Li Chunyi 946–952 The tale of two deer: management of Père David’s deer and sika deer in anthropogenic landscape of eastern Asia Zhigang Jiang, Koichi Kaji and Xiaoge Ping 953–961 Nutrition of antler growth in deer G. McL. Dryden 962–970 Bioacoustic cues and their relations to dominance rank in Père David’s deer stags Ni Liu, Zhigang Jiang, Linyuan Zhang, Zhenyu Zhong, Xiaoge Ping, Huailiang Xu and Chunwang Li 971–977 Habitat preference and feeding ecology of alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) in Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand, India Zarreen Syed and Orus Ilyas 978–987 Home range of reintroduced Chinese water deer in Nanhui East Shoal Wildlife Sanctuary of Shanghai, China Xin He, Min Chen and Endi Zhang 988–996 Effects of dietary zinc supplementation on nutrient digestibility, haematological biochemical parameters and production performance in male sika deer (Cervus nippon) Bao Kun, Sun Weili, Li Chunyi, Wang Kaiying, Li Zhipeng, Bi Shidan and Li Guangyu 997–1001 Effects of DL-methionine supplement on growth performance and amino acid digestion and plasma concentrations in sika deer calves (Cervus nippon) Jian Huang, Wei-Li Sun, Chun-Yi Li, Han-Lu Liu, Tie-Tao Zhang, Kun Bao, Yan-Yan Fan, Guang-Yu Li and Kai-Ying Wang 1002–1007 Total velvet-antler polypeptide extract from Cervus nippon Temminck induces cell proliferation and activation of the PI3K–Akt signalling pathway in human peripheral blood lymphocytes Min Zhang, Na Li, Xiao Bo Qu, Su Luo and Gregor P. C. Drummen 1008–1015.