54 deer were recorded at the beginning of the week in a warm-up run in the Deer Valley Park in Jerusalem, just before the temperatures drop.
Efrat Yegur, the manager of the herd in the valley, said that almost every 80 soldiers of the herd performed the run, which normally can last several minutes - but in the documentation in question, it lasted less than a minute.
The deer, a species from Palestine that is in danger of global extinction, survives in Israel during the winter thanks to its ability to cope with the low temperatures by changing its diet and behavior.
changes his diet.
Eretz-Israeli deer, photo: Amir Laban - Society for the Protection of Nature
According to Amanda Lind, the manager of the park on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Nature, this season, the deer change their diet from dry grass to fallen leaves and the tops of almonds, which have a high nutritional value, and also olives.
"In the evenings, the deer go for a warm-up run before the temperatures drop. The runs are common, and you can see them from the observation deck on Golomb Promenade even when the park is closed," she says.
According to estimates, only about 5,000 deer of this species remain in the wild.
The main danger to their lives, in addition to jackals and other predators, is the construction and destruction of natural habitats and the construction of roads, which interrupt their living areas and isolate them from their own kind.
Because of this, the Society for the Protection of Nature and other entities are fighting to save open spaces and ecological corridors, in addition to working to optimize construction plans so that the developments will also include significant ecological transitions.
Only a few thousand remain in the wild. Israelite deer
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