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Country diary: The muntjac deer decides I am not a threat | Animals

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So loudly unobtrusive, their lives confined from daybreak to nightfall to a copse that I may stroll via in three minutes, the closest deer have been at all times the least seen. How most of the passersby who sidestepped the mocha-coloured pellets on the adjoining path linked these scatterings to the hoarse barks coming from the bushes? I as soon as discovered the aged man who took his every day lockdown stroll right here, leaning in in the direction of the shouting thicket. He turned to me and requested: “What is it?”

In an deserted meadow the place I can nonetheless image the ghosts of sheep and cattle previous, a male muntjac has his head down, feeding a good hour past dawn. I have had extra muntjac sightings round right here within the final 4 months than within the earlier 25 years, and that is probably the most brazen but. Have all of the deer misplaced their concern, or am I seeing the identical animal repeatedly?

Will he stick, or twist and run? In the style of all ruminants, he’s each distracted and alert. Lips, tongue and mouth work the turf, whereas side-on eyes preserve a regular watch. I’ve paced alongside to the closest level, barring the way in which between deer and protected woodland, and but nonetheless he grazes. I’ve given him the heads up; he has his head down. But when I cease, the wild kicks in. The buck raises his head and offers me a lengthy, smooth look.

A muntjac does not have the snooty stare of a crimson deer stag; he’s extra of a dark-eyed spaniel begging a deal with. His face is kind of lovely: a steep, deep-brown V arrowing from simply above his muzzle to understated prongs the size of my index finger.

For a lengthy second we stare upon one another with curiosity, then he strikes. A jerk of his head lifting simply a fraction, the frisson of a wild animal absolutely acknowledging what I am, attempting to gauge the gap from hazard. Some threat – however not a lot, it will appear, for he swivels with out flipping up his tail into a hazard flag. A couple of bounding metres, then he turns again, drops his head, and carries on consuming.

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