• Dasus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well, the article says “deer”, but it’s just reindeer, and reindeer are a semi-domesticated species. All the reindeer in Lapland are owned by someone, but they’re also literally free to roam around and graze wherever. When it comes time, they gather up the tokka (collective noun for a reindeer group ~herd).

      People aren’t walking up to wild deer to paint their antlers.

      • Juice@midwest.social
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        2 months ago

        That makes sense! I thought it looked big for a deer, and i’d been able to walk right up to very large “deer” species such as elk, but its smaller than an elk. The rest of the background is interesting and helpful, thanks!

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          been able to walk right up to very large “deer” species such as elk

          I completely forgot that you guys say “moose” for the biggest fellas, and thought that you just walked up to moose and try petting them and I was gonna tell you what a bad idea that is, but yeah, you mean Cervus canadensis. We don’t have elk that big. Moose, reindeer and a few different deers, basically. I guess the closest would be the white-tailed deer. I started reading that, and seeing how it’s an American species more or less, I was very confused, as I walked up to one as a kid when I didn’t live in the city. But it’s been introduced to Finland as well.

          Reindeer are fairly small. Smaller than what I feel like they look in that picture. (Perhaps it’s a small man or an odd angle. Or just a unit of a reindeer)

          https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rQj0TrKxwcY/maxresdefault.jpg

          See?

    • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Very interesting. In hungary we have something similsr. I dont know the exact details but before we adopted christianity we had a travelling culture and one of the deities in it was a deer with glowing antlers which led you to a good hunt if i remember correctly.

  • phx@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    This just in: car impacts with deer down by 50%, but deer becoming a snack to wolves at night is up 100%

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You joke, but interventions like this are usually very carefully planned to avoid increased predation risk

      • phx@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Yeah ya’ll laugh until the wolves with spotlights come ;-)

      • evidences@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Just last week I was walking through a Finish late at night. I had heard some howling earlier in the night but hadn’t really thought about it in a while. So I’m walking along and I hear a twig snap and I freeze then BAM blinding light from like 10 feet away. This god damn wolf was standing 10 feet away from me holding a flashlight in its front paw. He apologized, said he though I might have been a deer, then told me to be careful and let me go on my way.

        Anyways we traded numbers real nice wolf that one, I think we’re going to go sauna together next week.

  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s “deer strikes” this whole time?

    I swear the first time I saw this I immediately skimmed it “to avoid getting hit by cars” 😭

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, just like jet engines sucking in a bird just minding its own business is “bird strike”, a cop shooting someone is an “officer involved shooting” and whenever Israel murders 30 people it’s “30 dead in strike”.

  • general_kitten@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    The deer in question are very likely reindeer not just regular deer much of the deer population(whitetail) in finland is considered invasive so the government basically encourages for them to be hunted