Norway: Can we have Eikthyrnir?
Finland: We have Eikthyrnir at home.
Very interesting. In hungary we have something similsr. I dont know the exact details but before we adopted christianity we had a travelling culture and one of the deities in it was a deer with glowing antlers which led you to a good hunt if i remember correctly.
This just in: car impacts with deer down by 50%, but deer becoming a snack to wolves at night is up 100%
Goddamn, those wolves with high beams are a menace!
Just last week I was walking through a Finish forest late at night. I had heard some howling earlier in the night but hadn't really thought about it in a while. So I'm walking along and I hear a twig snap and I freeze then BAM blinding light from like 10 feet away. This god damn wolf was standing 10 feet away from me holding a flashlight in its front paw. He apologized, said he though I might have been a deer, then told me to be careful and let me go on my way.
Anyways we traded numbers real nice wolf that one, I think we're going to go sauna together next week.
Reflective, not glowing.
Glowing would be sick though
You joke, but interventions like this are usually very carefully planned to avoid increased predation risk
nothing to see here :)
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I really hate cars, I do. But I think in rural Finnland they actually might be the only viable means of transportation
How does one just walk up to an adult deer like this?
The start is easy, you just walk up. These guys are just really good at the finnish.
Chefkiss!
Bravo!
Well, the article says "deer", but it's just reindeer, and reindeer are a semi-domesticated species. All the reindeer in Lapland are owned by someone, but they're also literally free to roam around and graze wherever. When it comes time, they gather up the tokka (collective noun for a reindeer group ~herd).
People aren't walking up to wild deer to paint their antlers.
Deer strikes? Here, we can’t even get workers to strike!
It's “deer strikes” this whole time?
I swear the first time I saw this I immediately skimmed it “to avoid getting hit by cars” 😭
Yeah, just like jet engines sucking in a bird just minding its own business is "bird strike", a cop shooting someone is an "officer involved shooting" and whenever Israel murders 30 people it's "30 dead in strike".
Brb, gonna paint a kangaroo
Every doe in Finland
I suspect some drivers will be VERY confused at the sight of those huge bright antlers in the middle of the night
"I've been reborn in the light of the one true God"
The deer in question are very likely reindeer not just regular deer much of the deer population(whitetail) in finland is considered invasive so the government basically encourages for them to be hunted
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