Should have told you before SantaFeJoe: I did watch the whole video. Interesting for sure…never read about that. Never knew of it. And one of the most moving elements of this short story was the photography. Wow! Photographer Joe Riis put together an awesome video. His low angle videos are as we have never seen the mule deer before….very exciting.
Here are two
Nature (trademark) videos that go hand in hand with this one:
2. "Touching the Wildlife" with Joe Hutto. I found it on Netflix, but here is the entire video I found on Youtube
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/touching ... wild/8679/
A very emotional story about the Mule Deer. One of a kind! Seeing this video was deeply moving for me. It deepened my regret for participating in the shooting of deer at night years ago in Florida…just for biological information that we were already getting from hunter surveys. But I was a lot younger, relatively new then... and only doing what I was told. Until I saw "Touching the Wildlife",
I never witnessed the depth of a yearling's grief (the terror) over the loss of its mother. Thank God the deer species are so social that orphaned yearlings are taken into the group after such a loss…..as if it was their own young one. The matriarch doe sees to that. I am so sorry when I allow myself to think of that work years ago. But I do not dwell on it…because I cannot. Just as the American aborigine did, I tell the deer that I am sorry for the things I did wrong to them. Live and learn. Actually, I am far better, stronger because of all of it. It is the truth.
3. And with another
Nature documentary: "The Private Life of Deer". I learned some new things about the White-tailed. Again, I bumped into it on Netflix, but here is a link I found on youtube for "ya'll" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1wo6lRmmuQ
Thanks for this one on the Wyoming migration SantaFe Joe. Honestly, I was not trying to "one-up" you Joe….your posting just led to me to recall these other two videos.
Robert King
http://itsaboutnature.net
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