When I take my dog out for his nightly walk, I often see the eyes of white-tail deer staring back at me from the woods behind our house. With my headlamp, all I can see is the eyeshine — bright dots of light in the darkness. Occasionally, my camera trap provides a behind the scenes look at what they’re up to back there. In this case, a young buck and a doe seem to be having some sort of conversation. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 500, f/14 at 1/200th of a second, Cognisys camera box, trail monitor and remote flashes.
She’s trying to sell him that leaf. It’s an Amway, pyramid-scheme type thing. Normally she wouldn’t fall for something like that a year of lockdown has scrambled her judgement and now the buck is trying to figure a polite way to escape without hurting her feelings, but he’s distracted because he’s go the theme song to the ’90s TGIF hit “Family Matters” stuck in his head so he’s not exactly thinking straight either and the situation is just dragging on and on an on. It’s a pretty common situation in large mammal biology actually. I’m surprised you haven’t documented it before.
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When I take my dog out for his nightly walk, I often see the eyes of white-tail deer staring back at me from the woods behind our house. With my headlamp, all I can see is the eyeshine — bright dots of light in the darkness. Occasionally, my camera trap provides a behind the scenes look at what they’re up to back there. In this case, a young buck and a doe seem to be having some sort of conversation. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 500, f/14 at 1/200th of a second, Cognisys camera box, trail monitor and remote flashes.
She’s trying to sell him that leaf. It’s an Amway, pyramid-scheme type thing. Normally she wouldn’t fall for something like that a year of lockdown has scrambled her judgement and now the buck is trying to figure a polite way to escape without hurting her feelings, but he’s distracted because he’s go the theme song to the ’90s TGIF hit “Family Matters” stuck in his head so he’s not exactly thinking straight either and the situation is just dragging on and on an on. It’s a pretty common situation in large mammal biology actually. I’m surprised you haven’t documented it before.
Most excellent! And they thought no one was watching!
I think she’s not ready to date!