Deer running in the woods
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Rooster1
I was right about that saddle
I had the misfortune of cycling through a forest one morning a few years back and finding about five or six dead dear on a stretch of road. It was so sad to see and some of the dear were quite young judging by their sizes. I reckon it had all happened the night before.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Some of the smaller woodland deer are wedge shaped so they can shoot through the undergrowth. This applies to antelope the world over (see duiker). If you have ever looked closely at a deer pelt, it is apparent they don’t go through life without evidence of occasionally getting snagged up on scrub, bramble and barbed wire. Devil's rope.
@Rooster1 it is very difficult to age many of the deer species by size unless they are definitely in a family group. Your sighting may even have been of small deer like muntjac. Teeth are the best indicator if age. Even antler growth has its vagaries depending on season, health, damage, sex and species.
Fascinating and successful animals. Down this way, numbers have to be controlled due to their prowess.
@Rooster1 it is very difficult to age many of the deer species by size unless they are definitely in a family group. Your sighting may even have been of small deer like muntjac. Teeth are the best indicator if age. Even antler growth has its vagaries depending on season, health, damage, sex and species.
Fascinating and successful animals. Down this way, numbers have to be controlled due to their prowess.
Used to see a lot of them when I lived up in Scotland. In fact deer/car collisions were common. I knew a few people who'd totalled their car. It very nearly happened to me as I drove off the ferry. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something moving very fast and slammed on just as a large stag leapt the fence beside me, briefly alighted on the road in front of the car, before leaping over the next fence and simply melting into the twilight. It happened so fast no one else in the car saw it and no one quite believed it had happened. Driving home late at night was also pretty hazardous as they all came down to the roadside off the hills. Someone told me it was to lick the salt off the road, no idea if that was true.
Drago
Legendary Member
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Careful - Fish s*** in the woods!
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
I was going to post a YouTube video of deer/cyclist, but actually they make me wince so you can look it up if you like that sort of thing. Gone are the days I can look at things like this.
Levo-Lon
Guru
Depending on how far north he lives, he may still have a neanderthal brow.Have you seen him..??
He can lick his eyebrows..the ladies love him
Levo-Lon
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Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Mrs D hit Bambi on the M45 in her (then) brand new Peugeot 3008 Sport. £3500 damage to the car. If Bambi had died I'd have killed him meself.
Julia9054
Guru
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I missed a deer by what seemed like inches one night on the slip road onto the A1 near Knottingley. It has gone down in legend as the Giant Moose of Pontefract.
When i lived in Zimbabwe in the early 90s, a colleague went down to South Africa to buy a new car. As they were driving it back up, a kudu leapt out of the bush and landed on their bonnet. One dead kudu and one written off car.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Hah! I too spent a couple of decades that-away.
You probably know the joke that’s too rude for here: “Why is a kudu called a kudu?”
Don’t answer! (Wish I hadn’t started. Sorry)
