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Muntjac deer in IR
[YouTube video, 00:00:10 in length, of a muntjac deer checking out the IR camera]
I took the motion-sensitive IR camera on our holiday trip to rural Norfolk, and it captured a couple of members of the feral muntjac deer population (which is quite large in that area) nosing about in the out-laws' garden. I like how the one in the video above is clearly having a squiz at the camera on its tripod!
[YouTube video, 00:00:10 in length, of two muntjac deer]
The one that's grooming itself looks up at the camera just before the end.
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My sisters and I found it and couldn't work out what it was, what with it being dog-sized, having little horns and also fangs. We seriously considered that it might be a dragon.
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"Hey, Ms Brown, the bipeds have left another surreal sculpture marking their territory. Look!"
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(However, the "Reeves's muntjac" article dismisses this in favour of the Whipsnade zoo theory "[citation needed]", and there is bitter debate in the Talk page.)
Also that they "may have also crossed the border into Scotland with a couple of specimens even appearing in Northern Ireland in 2009; they have been spotted in the Republic of Ireland in 2010, almost certainly having reached there with some human assistance."
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(I have a muntjac skull, which is the only reason I have any appreciation of their real-life size. Seriously SUCH a cute little fellow.)