Thread: Do you know how lucky we are?

I saw the same thing in Australia about 1994. In the "Grampians" in vic. A bunch of red deer came out on the empty lot at the end of our suburban road and they were small and scrawny. I put it down to a dry unproductive climate and vegetation evolved with a full complement of well adapted native herbivores for hundreds of thousands of years. Essentially there was no ecological niche for red deer there.