A Deer Migration You Have to See to Believe | National Geographic

it's 2013 and for large mammals around North America especially the lower 48 we typically think we kind of know what's going on and here we have hundreds of animals migrating 150 miles across public and private lands right underneath our noses but we didn't even know about it my name's house lawyer and research biologist that study in mule deer in western Wyoming now 415 years we recently started the Neil deer study in the red desert of Wyoming and the study was intended to just document the movement and distribution patterns of what we thought was a non-migratory a reson occurred in the desert but to my surprise and everybody else's it turns out that most of these deer migrate some 150 miles north to the mountain ranges of Northwest one hour this new GPS technology provides us a window into this sort of mysterious process of migration that we've never had before when you look at this migration on a map you say wow please dear moved 150 miles but it's especially impressive when you actually look at this migration route on the ground and see firsthand the landscape and the obstacles that these animals have to move through three aiways over 100 fences and multiple reservoir crossings the river crossings my job as a photojournalist working on this project is to show people what deer migration looks like I want to show people this type of migration footage that gets people to envision what it's like to be an animal and what it's like to be a migrating animal it's moving 100 miles 200 miles and try to help people think about these long-distance movements a lot of the areas that I focused on is at the outlets of these lakes called Finger Lakes one thing that was really interesting for me is each time I go check the camera I click through and look through the video and there'd be a lot of vocalizations these migration behaviors are learned from other offspring from generation to generation so dare you use the same migration route year after year after year what we've learned from this is that this incredible migration can take place right under our noses in the year 2012 thousands of animals 150-miles fact that this migration can still exist in unprotected areas in this day and age is pretty amazing you you

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Length: 4min 30sec (270 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 24 2014

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[u/healthcare_no_care]

Beautiful country.

[u/cantCommitToAHobby]

Seems like they need some migration-friendly fences...