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The animals on the cover of Essential SNMP, Second Edition are red deer (Cervus elaphus). Male red deer, also known as stags or harts, can grow to over 400 pounds. and stand 4254 inches tall at the shoulder. Females, or hinds, are more slightly built and usually reach a weight of only about 200 pounds. The color of the red deer's coat ranges from a warm reddish-brown in the summer to a darker grayish-brown in winter. Calves are spotted at birth, but the spots fade after about two months.

The typical family group consists of a hind, a new calf, a yearling calf, and perhaps a two- or three-year-old stag. Mature stags and hinds live in separate groups for most of the year, with the hinds tending to monopolize the better, more grassy habitats. At the start of the mating season (the rut) in the early fall, the stags split up and join the females. Each eligible stag establishes a harem of up to 20 or more hinds, which he defends vigorously during the rut. During this period, which typically lasts 68 weeks, the stags often forego eating and can lose as much as 15% of their body mass.

Red deer are one of the most widely distributed deer species: although they are native to Europe, today they can be found everywhere from New Zealand to North America. They are herbivores, feeding mainly on rough grasses, young tree shoots, and shrubs. Forest-dwellers by nature, they can adapt easily to different climates and terrain. In many of the areas in which they were introduced, red deer are commercially farmed for venison and antler velvet, which has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2,000 years to treat a broad range of ailments, including anemia, arthritic pain and rheumatism, kidney disorders, and stress.

Darren Kelly was the production editor, and Audrey Doyle was the copyeditor for Essential SNMP, Second Edition. Carol Marti proofread the book. Genevieve d'Entremont and Colleen Gorman provided quality control. Lydia Onofrei provided production assistance. Johnna VanHoose Dinse wrote the index.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Rachel Wheeler.