Muntjac deer in IR
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common_nature[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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Date: 2015-12-30 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-30 04:17 pm (UTC)(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."