I saw 1 today on my walks. I was very close to it. I whistled and made some gentle noise so it wasnt as startled when it saw me but nothing. Wondering if it may of lost it's hearing. Anyway, a rabbit came shooting out of the bush and ran directly towards the muntjac, then it realised something was wrong. It saw me and ran off with the rabbit. On further inspection i actually found where it was sleeping which was pretty cool. It was a small round imprint on the ground in some bushes. Had to of been where it lays. Wild life is cool. Kinda feels sacred when you stumble upon wild animals.
The muntjac here in Norfolk have multiplied enormously. My shrubs have been scraped clean, surprisingly they love roses, all mine have been munched. Sadly I can no longer have tulips they love those. Many many plants have been eaten, it is a battle of wits trying out different plants and protecting others. They don’t seem to like ground elder or stinging nettles.
I have a munt Jack coming in my garden. Almost whole day they roam around in my garden. They eat bird food. They wait for me serve them bird seeds, I absolutely love them watching whole day.
Thanks Bertil. I hope you are well? I think this is going to be the dominant format for my videos for the time being with the occasional wildlife reserve visit squeezed in. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Great videos Liam, lovely to see someone so passionate about nature. At the end of 2020 I became fascinated by the wildlife in my garden with my 9 year old son, I never took much notice before and now I am feeding all the birds and learning so much about them through your videos, keep up the good work! subscribed and liked 👍
@@jacobrheams Thanks Jacob, yes so glad my children are interested too at their young age. It's probably one of the only positive things to come out of this pandemic is people becoming more aware of the nature around them.
❤ just seen a muntjac in the day passing very calmly over the road. We are in the country. And feel really honoured. To see wild life.lovely to see and hear all about these BEAUTIFUL animals. Thankyou for the videos. ❤❤❤
Thank you for the information on a subject close to my heart. I live in Shropshire and I'm lucky enough to have a large population of these at my doorstep. I often hear their strange sounding call. I now have a trail cam in the garden and catch them every time I put it out. I think you deserve a like and a sub!
Cheers! Ive found the males in this area seem to have quite small territories too so can often be seen in or around the same areas every day. The camera trap footage I used in this video showed how they used the same routes every day at almost the same time too.
Wow, I went on a walk this morning up the hill I live near, a female was sat in the grass and didn't notice me, I wanted to get passed without them seeing me so I snuck next to it, I was about 15 feet away from it, it then bounced away to what I think was the male as it had antlers. He stood up tall and just stared at me as I walked up the hill, so powerful
I miss seeing these guys around when I lived in the UK. I was always worried I'd accidentally hit one at night though. Always near the edges of roads I felt like.
Hey dude! I have muntjac living in my garden who are becoming quite tame, which feels really special. And they've become pretty close with the turkeys too. It's nice to learn a little more about them, so thank you! And judging by your accent, I'm in your neck of the woods, bor! 😂 New sub.
@@AShotOfWildlife It's really lovely, they are no longer afraid of us; they just carry on eating! We're a few miles from the north coast... Somewhere between Prince William and Stephen Fry!
Seen 1 today while I was fishing in Kettering. Startled me for a second, it was standing in the middle of the shallow bit of the river having a slurp. It seen me but it didn't seem to bothered it casually strolled up through the stream
Amazing how they have spread to parks in urban areas, crossing major roads. They are in our local park near Heathrow and I will never understand how they got there.
Good video, you should have mentioned about the noise they make when calling to each other, it frightened the life out of me when I heard it at night for the first time. I used to see a couple of them every day in Yarmouth cemetery while I was feeding the squirrels and covids, then two turned into one and then none at all. Couldn't work out why they disappeared... Then one day I found the remains of one of them 😔 I can only assume it had been mauled by a dog. There are signs saying keep dogs on a lead but no one takes a blind bit of notice, and I think I know who the culprit is as he beat a hasty retreat when I told him to put his dog on the lead last week. It's a shame as I enjoyed watching the muntjac mooching about, hopefully they'll be back soon
Yes, they are still the most numerous in east anglia but they are spreading further north and west. I see them here in Norwich almost every time I leave the city centre.
One day I was walking along Friars Quay near the centre of Norwich, when I heard a splash. I turned to see a pair of swans chasing a muntjac up the river. It clambered out onto a landing stage, looking rather bedraggled and some passersby helped it back onto its feet.
Would enjoy learning more about the muntjac deer. The sounds they make. Do they really have scent glands on their face that open and close like I've seen on reddit? Where did thru originate from?
An interesting suggestion. I would state that although the two have increased at similar rates, the spatial dispersion isnt the same. For example, muntjac are still quite rare in northern Wales, but bovine TB has increased there as much as anywhere else.
They may not be native and be a bit of a nuisance at times on the environmental scale, but they win on cuteness! ... "And will mate with any receptive female that they come across." There are guys out there who are like that, too.
Muntjak bucks have fangs which they use when fighting each other . An example : a munjak buck became tangled in strawberry netting . A terrier approached it , the munjak buck did not do the terrier any good . So folks , keep your hands well away from a muntjak , do not try to "rescue "it
I'm not sure I understand the question? Depending on who you speak to, they are considered a pest species but I think it is probably too expensive to try to eradicate them.
I love them (I’d love to own a couple), but if deer continue to overpopulate, it might be high time for lynx reintroductions! And greater range of Scottish wildcats!
Unfortunately lynx can only eat so many deer, here in Southern Finland we have quite a lot of them, but our white tail deer (also an introduced species) problem is still getting out of hands. 😐 They are destroying slow growing native forest floor plants, crops and gardens, and causing thousands of traffic accidents per year.
If you ever wonder what they sound like checkout my video - ua-cam.com/video/RSoritwmT64/v-deo.html Scared the life out of me the first time I heard them barking at night!
It's been found that wild animals will change their daytime habits into being nocturnal to specifically avoid people. I wonder if that's the same with these?
A lot of people did a few weeks back, I have a muntjac might do a short video with that showing where the glands are... if that's the IG video you saw?
Thanks so much Liam for your video .I've learned a lot and find them wonderful animals .Just hope & pray they aren't hunted .Harmless and able to fit in anywhere is rather wonderful . Keep up the great work .It's superb 👍👏🏻 best wishes from Helena _
Like all UK deer species they are hunted. If they weren't then we would be overrun, no one really knows the impact on local species, though they are the only mammal that can eat bluebells. They reproduce rapidly and 40,000 is definitely a gross underestimate of population numbers.
Although the males have short antlers, a lot of their territorial disputes are thought using their fangs. They don't really weigh enough to have proper antler battles like larger deer species.
I saw 1 today on my walks. I was very close to it. I whistled and made some gentle noise so it wasnt as startled when it saw me but nothing. Wondering if it may of lost it's hearing.
Anyway, a rabbit came shooting out of the bush and ran directly towards the muntjac, then it realised something was wrong. It saw me and ran off with the rabbit.
On further inspection i actually found where it was sleeping which was pretty cool. It was a small round imprint on the ground in some bushes. Had to of been where it lays.
Wild life is cool. Kinda feels sacred when you stumble upon wild animals.
The muntjac here in Norfolk have multiplied enormously. My shrubs have been scraped clean, surprisingly they love roses, all mine have been munched. Sadly I can no longer have tulips they love those. Many many plants have been eaten, it is a battle of wits trying out different plants and protecting others. They don’t seem to like ground elder or stinging nettles.
Buy a bow and arrow
Love your videos! We have Muntjac deer here in Hertfordshire and it was lovely to hear all about them. They’re adorable 🥰
Thanks Kay. I'm glad you found this video and the Chinese water deer one useful and interesting :)
no they are terrifying 😢😢😢😢
I have a munt Jack coming in my garden. Almost whole day they roam around in my garden. They eat bird food. They wait for me serve them bird seeds, I absolutely love them watching whole day.
*muntjac
Thanks Liam for the Muntjac presentation! Another great episode of your "Things you need to know" series. Take care! // Bertil.
Thanks Bertil. I hope you are well?
I think this is going to be the dominant format for my videos for the time being with the occasional wildlife reserve visit squeezed in. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@@AShotOfWildlife Thanks Liam! I'm well and I hope you are too. Sounds like a good idea to continue with the "Things you need to know" format.
Great videos Liam, lovely to see someone so passionate about nature. At the end of 2020 I became fascinated by the wildlife in my garden with my 9 year old son, I never took much notice before and now I am feeding all the birds and learning so much about them through your videos, keep up the good work! subscribed and liked 👍
Thanks and sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Im glad my videos have helped you and your son, and hope that they continue to do so.
That’s something that I love to hear! Sorry for a random reply but just hearing more people become interested in wildlife is an awesome thing to see
@@jacobrheams Thanks Jacob, yes so glad my children are interested too at their young age. It's probably one of the only positive things to come out of this pandemic is people becoming more aware of the nature around them.
Great post !! Great info ! Love the captures you got of the muntjac on your trail cameras 🎥!!! Fantastic!!👏🏻👏🏻👍
❤ just seen a muntjac in the day passing very calmly over the road. We are in the country. And feel really honoured. To see wild life.lovely to see and hear all about these BEAUTIFUL animals. Thankyou for the videos. ❤❤❤
Thank you. I'm glad you get to enjoy nature in the countryside!
It's like we took regular deers to mars and let it sit there for a few thousand years, it's a deer but it's so alien.
There is one right in front of me as I am typing this! Soooo cute!
I have these deer live in the small woodland behind my house. Sometimes they come into the garden.
Thank you for the information on a subject close to my heart. I live in Shropshire and I'm lucky enough to have a large population of these at my doorstep. I often hear their strange sounding call. I now have a trail cam in the garden and catch them every time I put it out. I think you deserve a like and a sub!
One has taken up residence in the bottom of our garden with her baby.
Lovely to watch in the day, her night barking could raise the dead.
She's probably calling to mate. They are usually carrying whilst weening. This is why their numbers are growing rapidly
Well I learnt plenty from that one for sure! Excellent choice of species to cover. Hat off to you mate! 👍👍👍🙂👍👍👍
I encountered a screaming one last night running around our camp for 20 mins at 4am so thanks for educating me on what almost made me shit my pants 😂
Great video. Since I moved to semi rural Hertfordshire a 14 months they are regular visitors in the large community gardens.
Great video. Muntjac are good to watch. The females especially stick to an area, giving you chance to learn about their behaviours.
Cheers! Ive found the males in this area seem to have quite small territories too so can often be seen in or around the same areas every day. The camera trap footage I used in this video showed how they used the same routes every day at almost the same time too.
Who came from Tiktok 😅
LMFAO YES !!!! 💀
Meee I just had to see what was going on
Looooooool maybe 👀
Hahahah me
Maybe
Wow, I went on a walk this morning up the hill I live near, a female was sat in the grass and didn't notice me, I wanted to get passed without them seeing me so I snuck next to it, I was about 15 feet away from it, it then bounced away to what I think was the male as it had antlers. He stood up tall and just stared at me as I walked up the hill, so powerful
Using the ball pig to snif the sweets?
Great video! I'm lucky to see lots where I live and have always been curious to find out more about them.
I miss seeing these guys around when I lived in the UK. I was always worried I'd accidentally hit one at night though. Always near the edges of roads I felt like.
Hey dude! I have muntjac living in my garden who are becoming quite tame, which feels really special. And they've become pretty close with the turkeys too. It's nice to learn a little more about them, so thank you!
And judging by your accent, I'm in your neck of the woods, bor! 😂
New sub.
Haha, yes, I think you might be local! Im glad the video was useful and that you are having great encounters with some muntjac.
Where are you based?
@@AShotOfWildlife It's really lovely, they are no longer afraid of us; they just carry on eating!
We're a few miles from the north coast... Somewhere between Prince William and Stephen Fry!
Oh well we can also have the Xbox ball 😭
@@AShotOfWildlife local news is not so local 😂
What a beautiful alien
Seen 1 today while I was fishing in Kettering. Startled me for a second, it was standing in the middle of the shallow bit of the river having a slurp. It seen me but it didn't seem to bothered it casually strolled up through the stream
even though they are non native i love seeing them while out walking . great video thanks for sharing
The New Map in TheHunter call of the wild
I came here from UA-cam short, thought I saw an alien in previous video
I think I have seen the video you mean, where one opens the glands on its face?
@@AShotOfWildlife Yes exactly 💯😅
Amazing how they have spread to parks in urban areas, crossing major roads. They are in our local park near Heathrow and I will never understand how they got there.
They are so spread in urban area it is amazing. I suspect they move around a lot more freely at night time and travel most then.
Great video Liam, loved it!
Good video, you should have mentioned about the noise they make when calling to each other, it frightened the life out of me when I heard it at night for the first time.
I used to see a couple of them every day in Yarmouth cemetery while I was feeding the squirrels and covids, then two turned into one and then none at all. Couldn't work out why they disappeared... Then one day I found the remains of one of them 😔 I can only assume it had been mauled by a dog. There are signs saying keep dogs on a lead but no one takes a blind bit of notice, and I think I know who the culprit is as he beat a hasty retreat when I told him to put his dog on the lead last week.
It's a shame as I enjoyed watching the muntjac mooching about, hopefully they'll be back soon
Looks like a cross between a rodent of some kind and a deer👀
I’ve never heard of these till I moved to Peterborough. I see them a lot on my dog walks.
Yes, they are still the most numerous in east anglia but they are spreading further north and west. I see them here in Norwich almost every time I leave the city centre.
Great!
Thanks for the share.
Many greetings
Seen one recently in a central Bournemouth Park, seemed not in the least concerned that I was 5/6 feet away. Thanks for the video Liam.
Muntjac definitely seem to be more used to humans than the other 5 species that’s for sure lol😂
Thank you for this great video. Luckily there are lots on the Mousehold and good to know, that they mate all year round.
I just adore these creatures.
One day I was walking along Friars Quay near the centre of Norwich, when I heard a splash. I turned to see a pair of swans chasing a muntjac up the river. It clambered out onto a landing stage, looking rather bedraggled and some passersby helped it back onto its feet.
They loved eating my tulips!!! :-o Very interesting video, thanks!
Would enjoy learning more about the muntjac deer. The sounds they make. Do they really have scent glands on their face that open and close like I've seen on reddit? Where did thru originate from?
Thanks for sharing such detailed information. I saw them once. And thought I saw deers. But anyway they are some kind of deer.
Nice video Liam, I finally caught the (only) Hackney local on trail cam recently.
There's just the one there? I've never been to hackney but I am surprised by that. Did you get some good footage of it?
Good video but you forgot to talk about there fangs the males have
Very good. Thank you
Cheers.
You left out the freaky ability of opening their glands
Such beautiful animals. Great video.
Where in Scotland or in Ireland can they be found ,Liam? Thanks. 🏴🤔😃🏴
Amazing deer 🦌
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Love your videos xx
Thank you!
Lovely
Thank you.
What about the fangs?
They also carry Bovine TB, and the rise in Muntjac in the UK coincides with the rise in Bovine TB.
An interesting suggestion. I would state that although the two have increased at similar rates, the spatial dispersion isnt the same. For example, muntjac are still quite rare in northern Wales, but bovine TB has increased there as much as anywhere else.
Thank you so cool
Thank you!
deer are absolutely beautiful animals and i don't care!! what you say
Lol, I didnt say anything bad about them...
oops, i was sorta tipsy while writing this comment lol. didn't mean anything bad by it though@@AShotOfWildlife
dogs: thats not barking, what do you even talk about hooman, we can't understand those weirdoes.
Out of the few cool animals i can have as a pet in Canada this is one
They may not be native and be a bit of a nuisance at times on the environmental scale, but they win on cuteness! ... "And will mate with any receptive female that they come across." There are guys out there who are like that, too.
333-334 definitely alien 👾👽
What do those numbers mean?
I've seen them in Trent Park and Forty Hall.
Gave me goosebumps lol
Lol, why?
@@AShotOfWildlife lol because of his scent glands opening an closing lol
Awww cute baby footage! ^^
Muntjak bucks have fangs which they use when fighting each other . An example : a munjak buck became tangled in strawberry netting . A terrier approached it , the munjak buck did not do the terrier any good . So folks , keep your hands well away from a muntjak , do not try to "rescue "it
Them back legs don't mess about either..
Listening to this with headphones like
“Who’s playing guitar tho”
Is it legal to hunt/trap them? They are invasive after all
The one thing you didn’t answer is are they tasty? How good are they to eat?!
My first thought is, why is this considered okay for an invasive species?
I'm not sure I understand the question? Depending on who you speak to, they are considered a pest species but I think it is probably too expensive to try to eradicate them.
I love them (I’d love to own a couple), but if deer continue to overpopulate, it might be high time for lynx reintroductions! And greater range of Scottish wildcats!
Unfortunately lynx can only eat so many deer, here in Southern Finland we have quite a lot of them, but our white tail deer (also an introduced species) problem is still getting out of hands. 😐 They are destroying slow growing native forest floor plants, crops and gardens, and causing thousands of traffic accidents per year.
@@OliverJazzzthat’s nature it’s only a problem in how you perceive it . Natures the beauty of everything and should be left and respected after all
And how do they taste
So the one I saw on twitter WAS a mutant! I knew it wasn't a normal deer After all, the don't have HOLES in their faces.
Haha, no, them holes are there but they're not normally that open.
I have two muntjacs living in my neighbours over grown garden
Reminds me of Andalites.
Is that a chinese water dear or a rabbit or is it what its supposed to be? You decide im waiting
I try to found out more of them ... last night seen one in garden ...🙃🙂
Interesting (as always), Like 33 and Bye from Italy :)
Why the muntjac even have two preorbital glands also on their forehead and is preorbital gland a hole?
But how do they taste?
I dont actually know, they are too deer for me!
@@AShotOfWildlifeThey're not that expensive - they're only a little deer.
@@MrSonofsonof The females are cheap but a male one's a buck.
If you ever wonder what they sound like checkout my video - ua-cam.com/video/RSoritwmT64/v-deo.html
Scared the life out of me the first time I heard them barking at night!
Seen in Norfolk on my walking
Yes, I see tgem a lot round here.
Would Muntjac chase a horse who was grazing in a paddock ?
Welcome to the jungle 🎶🎵
It's been found that wild animals will change their daytime habits into being nocturnal to specifically avoid people. I wonder if that's the same with these?
Wait are they an invasive species or not?
Yes, they're a non native invasive species.
I've rescued a couple of these after they fell in the canal, didn't realise I'm not supposed to set them free
BUT HOW DO THEY TASTE!?!
You didn't mention the tusks
So do they taste good? Is there any info on this?
Apparently they are good to eat. Lots of information on Google.
Before this did the Uk not have elk or deer?
The UK had red deer and roe deer, reindeer had gone extinct but have sort of been reintroduced (although not really)
FYP brings me here
What's FYP?
who came after they saw it on instagram😂
I can totally buy them being spirits of the forest.
Isn't there a hunting season for them? I would think they would get out of hand.
They don’t cause as much chaos as the other species although they do cause the most car accidents
@@Bignfluffy Thanks
Things I didn't know about the mental before 35 seconds ago
#1 that they even existed
Who came here from IG?
A lot of people did a few weeks back, I have a muntjac might do a short video with that showing where the glands are... if that's the IG video you saw?
Had to turn up the volume on this one
deeply unsettling
What is?
Thanks so much Liam for your video .I've learned a lot and find them wonderful animals .Just hope & pray they aren't hunted .Harmless and able to fit in anywhere is rather wonderful . Keep up the great work .It's superb 👍👏🏻 best wishes from Helena _
Like all UK deer species they are hunted. If they weren't then we would be overrun, no one really knows the impact on local species, though they are the only mammal that can eat bluebells. They reproduce rapidly and 40,000 is definitely a gross underestimate of population numbers.
Scum are hunting these beautiful animals all over YT..
@@richiedd4119 I don’t think it is tbh
@@Bignfluffy thanks for the input.
@@richiedd4119 you are so welcome☺️
Why do they have long teeth? Almost look like canines. TY.
Although the males have short antlers, a lot of their territorial disputes are thought using their fangs. They don't really weigh enough to have proper antler battles like larger deer species.
I want one.
Press 7!
You didnt say what they taste like.
How can you explain taste... I don't think I've tried muntjac either.