Seeing this photo, are your heart tightened? The white-tailed deer may have been looking down to graze when a crossbow arrow shot in the middle of the head, which then penetrated the nasal cavity and came out of the jaw.
The deer was found near Hendersonville, Tennessee, and when people saw it, it "wore" an arrow on its head and strolled around leisurely, seemingly without discomfort, and the arrow was its headdress.
This is because the arrow just went through its skull and did not hurt the brain, otherwise it would not have been so lucky.
Someone posted a picture of it on social media, and many people felt their hearts tighten, and some people angrily said that it was not the season of deer hunting, which must have been done by poachers, and he should be found and arrested.
Others hope that the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Authority will quickly find the deer and find a way to rescue it.
Fortunately, wildlife officials quickly found it, but the deer with the arrow obviously refused to cooperate and hid from the cat.
Wildlife officials fired sedative darts at it, eventually numbing it to the ground. Fearing that pulling out the arrow directly would cause it deeper damage, officials chose to cut the arrow, leave a section of the shaft inside it, and apply anti-inflammatory drugs.
There are concerns about whether this treatment will allow it to fully recover, and a spokesman for the Wildlife Resources Authority said that the deer is a very tough animal, one of the most tenacious beings in nature, and we are optimistic that it can recover and move freely.
The spokesman also said they will continue to monitor the deer for several months to keep an eye on its health unless it is legally hunted during the upcoming deer hunting season. The next deer hunting season is august 26 to 28 of this month, and there is another deer season in September that allows hunting.
It seems that the fate of this deer is still not optimistic, escaping the poisonous hands of illegal poachers, and some people have treated its wounds, but it is still possible to lose its life in the upcoming legal hunt and become the spoils of a certain hunter. What is there a saying called? Obviously this is not the case for animals, many animals can escape the predators, but in the end, human beings have the final say.
But the deer can still take comfort, in addition to the Wildlife Resources Agency officials to help it heal the wounds, another group called Help Asheville Bear has offered a reward of $3,500, hoping to find the poachers who caused harm to it, bring it to justice, and the Wildlife Resources Bureau also hopes that people will have clues to report to them.
Although this white-tailed deer looks pitiful, the white-tailed deer has become a big problem in North America, and the total number has now exceeded 30 million, not far from the heyday of history.
However, compared with their heyday more than 100 years ago, the population of the United States has now doubled, and the habitat of wild animals has been compressed a lot, so the white-tailed deer has actually become a flood and become a pest, in addition to causing a large number of crop losses every year, but also because the deer like to cross the road, especially at night and during estrus, resulting in a large number of car collision accidents.
According to 2009 estimates by the U.S. insurance industry, at least 2.4 million deer car collisions occurred in two years, killing more than 300 people and causing economic losses of up to $7 billion.
The bigger catastrophe is invisible, and many studies have shown that white-tailed deer eat young tree seedlings and native flowers and grasses in the forest, which has led to the forest being green and yellow, most of which are old trees, and the carbon storage capacity has declined. The invasive shrubs developed because deer did not like to eat, resulting in the increasing scarcity of native plants. What is the cause of this?
On the one hand, it is the overprotectiveness of humans, on the other hand, the female deer of the white-tailed deer is particularly fertile, and the white-tailed deer runs particularly fast.
At the beginning of the 19th century, only 300,000 white-tailed deer in the United States were left due to extinct hunting, and since then, under the strong protection of the government, they have begun to rebound rapidly.
The average age of sexual maturity of the female of the white-tailed deer is 18 months, but there are also does that mature at six months of age, which can be said to be a typical precocious puberty. And a doe can give birth to one litter a year, a litter can give birth to one to three fawns, you think they may grow up after six months, and then give birth to their own offspring, compared to rabbits may be a little worse, but they are deer, the average weight is tens of kilograms to more than 100 kilograms, the heaviest is even more than 200 kilograms, which has to consume how many resources.
Then there are the white-tailed deer running particularly fast, reaching a speed of 76 km / h, the fastest of all the deer, and exceeding the speed of all their predators, and they are also capable of jumping, jumping at a height of more than 2.7 meters, jumping out of 9.1 meters in one step, it is simply flying. And as humans grew, their natural enemies became fewer and fewer, which made the white-tailed deer family simply open up, and by 2005 there were as many as 30 million heads, a total of 100 times.
Introduced to Europe in the second half of the 19th century, the white-tailed deer soon became a stable presence and gradually spread across northern Scandinavia and southern Karelia, slowly replacing the native species and estimated to soon become an invasive species. In other parts of the world, deer often rely on these advantages and quickly gain an advantage in the ecological environment, and even become invasive species. Coupled with the gradual disappearance of predators caused by human proliferation, deer may be the most destructive pest in the wild environment in the future.