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December 19, 2016 12:26 PM

Newborn fawns are fitted with expanding radio collars to track their movements as they learn to walk. Radio active?
posted by ChuraChura (14 comments total)

ooooh, ~expanding~
posted by The Gaffer at 12:34 PM on December 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Its brief and sanitary but as there are people who love-love animals, TW for a brief shot of presumably dead fawn. We can all wish very hard its unfortunate v/o timing and the deer just resting :(

I totally want some GIS plots: deer go here and then they go here. My google-fu is only able to turn up hunting links and a powerpoint behind an ad wall :(
posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:24 PM on December 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

I could never be an animal researcher because I would HUG ALL THE BABIES
posted by AFABulous at 1:33 PM on December 19, 2016 [7 favorites]

I believe that the fawn (do you mean the one lying down at 1:30?) really is just resting.
posted by ChuraChura at 1:57 PM on December 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

I totally want some GIS plots: deer go here and then they go here. My google-fu is only able to turn up hunting links and a powerpoint behind an ad wall :(

They are radio collars, not GPS collars so no fine tracking like that would be available. Radio collars help you find the animal they don't record it a movements.

The fawn at 1:30 is definitely not dead. It's just playing dead or maybe mildly sedated.
posted by fshgrl at 2:25 PM on December 19, 2016 [2 favorites]

First reaction: Yay! Fawns!

30 seconds later: Imagine Dragons? Is there a single YouTube clip that has ever been improved by the addition of music (other than "Yakety Sax")?
posted by slkinsey at 2:56 PM on December 19, 2016 [4 favorites]

Newborn fawns explore the world ... Set to the fantastic new song "Radioactive," by Imagine Dragons

Weirdest cross-promotion ever
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:59 PM on December 19, 2016

I need one of these for my deer. He's under 1 year, and wanders freely, but shows up for handouts and company, and affection, most days. He stopped taking a bottle a couple months ago. Loves carrots and fruit. We hope he is socializing with other deer, but don't know. They don't reject him outright, his first encounters were here in our sight, with a friendly pair around his age.
posted by Goofyy at 4:30 PM on December 19, 2016 [2 favorites]

> I totally want some GIS plots: deer go here and then they go here.

Close enough?
posted by christopherious at 4:56 PM on December 19, 2016

I believe that the fawn (do you mean the one lying down at 1:30?) really is just resting.

I assure you, its total lack of movement is due to it being tired and shagged out following a prolonged bleat.
posted by Doktor Zed at 5:12 PM on December 19, 2016 [2 favorites]

> I totally want some GIS plots: deer go here and then they go here.

It's pretty much just this [previously].
posted by glonous keming at 5:23 PM on December 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Is there a single YouTube clip that has ever been improved by the addition of music (other than "Yakety Sax")?

Shrimp on a Treadmill w/ The Final Countdown!
posted by radwolf76 at 6:02 PM on December 19, 2016 [3 favorites]

I mean ... I found the music amusing. Now their radio collar is active! Whee! Bounce bounce, I'm a very small deer.
posted by ChuraChura at 6:44 PM on December 19, 2016 [2 favorites]

thanks for posting this. I'm finding that with the relentless gnar of 2016, all I can handle mentally is cute animal videos.
posted by GospelofWesleyWillis at 12:48 PM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]