tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post8980186265977328100..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: MuntjackGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-49643247193440394422010-11-04T09:34:02.657+00:002010-11-04T09:34:02.657+00:00Muntjacks are perfectly real, as you have found. S...Muntjacks are perfectly real, as you have found. Slightly disturbing looking. not-quite-a-deer and yet a deer. I looked in the local press for any report of it - they are common really, so I wasn't really expecting it to be mentioned. it was just its location - nothing there. I should have used my phone camera, but hard to do when you're driving and I didn't think of it.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-62766553860635454362010-11-03T10:20:30.898+00:002010-11-03T10:20:30.898+00:00Thanks for this George, vividly told as usual. I a...Thanks for this George, vividly told as usual. I actually didn't know what a muntjack was and at first I thought you were talking about an imaginary beast, such as Claire Crowther's 'thike'. Interesting to learn that it's the small 'barking deer', introduced to England in 1925. Apparently the oldest deer we know of, first appearing 35 million years ago.Mark Granierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398noreply@blogger.com