Showing posts with label Roe Deer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roe Deer. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 January 2011

Quiz time



Hmm. Great photos. You can actually tell the difference between the monkey and the deer. Respect. You've got to admire those macaques don't you? The only known species that doesn't take off at the merest whiff of your scent, Geoff. As for the math, I like your moves. Very gentlemanly to concede the black rat. But perhaps that should come off your tally as a consequence? Nonetheless, are you suggesting that you didn't actually see one heading for the condensed milk in P's backpack on Silhouette Island? By the way, did I ever mention that those Hydrometra we found in a pool on our way down the mountain turned out to be a new species?

Anyway, back to mammals. I should say that I've seen the odd roe deer, though I confess I don't have a photo. So I think that makes us Geoff 6, Graham 5 (and 736 sheep).

Time for a new species. If I told you that this picture was taken in North America, would you hazard a guess at its Latin binomial? And no looking it up or asking expert ornithomammalogists. By the way, it's the small rock lookalike in the middle of the picture. Not the large rock lookalike at the front left. That's simply a large rock. Oh, and a bonus point for each lichen you can identify.

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Bound to happen

Graham, nice math.

Just to save your scanner I'll post two pics of a Long-tailed Macaque (Imnotsuricanspelltheenglish nevermindthelatinname). This primate was, in fact, trying to mug a tourist, just like you describe. Can you tell? Luckily I fought back - there was no way it was getting my Canon, even if I don't have a prime lens. Geddit?


So, point reclaimed. But I must admit I am not going to be able to get that Black Rat on my list, unless maybe I go on holiday with you again. After all, my closest encounters with rats have been in your company...

Now, where to go next. Like a mammalian version of Mornington Crescent, many routes seem possible, but only one is possible. Yes, it is a mammal that I have actually seen this week so it therefore bounds into the blog: Roe Deer (Capreolus crapeolus).

These photos (that I took at a nearby site in November) clearly demonstrate how excellent fieldcraft can achieve a series of images of an individual going about its normal behaviour... err, with the emphasis on going.








Graham: 4

Geoff: 7

Totalogia: 8