Oh, Dear!
This sort of thing is only surprising to people who get their wildlife education from disney movies... In those movies, all the animals in the forest are friends, and the only danger comes from the evil hunters... Although sometimes predators are shown as mean and nasty characters too...
Anyone who's actually spent any time "in the wild," even if it's just a few camp outs in Boy Scouts knows that's not the way things are. Deer are prey animals, but it doesn't mean that they're defensless. They will defend themselves, and they can often times overcome an unarmed man. Add to that the heightened aggresiveness that comes from being in rut, and you've got a pretty darned dangerous creature.
And reindeer are not different, just quite a bit bigger and more powerful!
Rut affects most animals the same way... The males become extremely aggressive, and they really don't care who they hurt. I recall an old woman who raised a deer from a fawn, and she was killed by the deer while he was in rut.
Mark
Finland can be very dangerous.
Why not trei a holiday in Sweden?
See the loveli lakes...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
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