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To Richmond Park yesterday to meet Joanne & Neil and watch some hot deer-on-deer action. (Thank you Candace.) It’s the red deer rut. We found a big stag in a clearing with a dozen does he’d rounded up and was occasionally mounting. Round the clearing another dozen stags and bucks were hanging out, listening to his bellowed challenges. (Is this the “deers talking” people go to Scotland for?)

In the main herd, matters were more lively, with some horny characters tangling antlers and playing stag tag. Reminded me of someone’s observation that the sexual liberation of the Sixties had allowed dominant males more sexual partners, but had broken up the general monogamy that ensured most males got partners. Does this have anything to do with why we feel less safe than our parents did?

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