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Every day brings the end of the year closer, and with it Christmas, a holiday that normal people spend with their families, surrounded by their loved ones. I, however, having drifted away from that normality for quite some time now, will be spending this holiday in the frosty nighttime forest, bowhunting from a stand. Moreover,…

According to the footage, the red stag’s day began well before the wallowing, in the section of forest bordering the wallow. That’s the spot where I also have my automatic feeder and a bird waterer carved into an old, felled poplar stump. At 15:27, one of the wallow’s cameras caught him on the sun-drenched, duckweed-covered…

On the first hunting day of my usual monthly hunt in July, near the Nagy-Zöld wallow, I sat out in a stand set up 7 m high, hidden in a blackthorn bush. During the night only a few red deer passed through the stretch of forest at the edge of the wallow, but just after…

The undeniably essential, "mandatory" gear check before responsible hunting has an unskippable part: a test shot at the ranges likely to come up during the hunt. Beyond that, I also always try to make time for extra practice. This time, that activity was paired with a test of the previously mentioned minimalist, low-profile-camera-gimbal-raveneye setup. What…

Behavioral Adaptation and Feeding Ecology of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Population Under Anthropogenic Influence, Through the Example of a Site-Specific Feeding Location Introduction The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is one of Europe’s most adaptable big game species, possessing an outstanding capacity to adjust to anthropogenic (human-modified) environments. The purpose of this study is to…

Morphological and Ethological Characteristics of Old Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) Stags, and Their Significance in Sustainable Wildlife Management Abstract This paper examines the complex characteristics of old red deer stags, linking morphology, ethology, and wildlife management practice. We support a case study developed from a specific observation near the Nagy-Zöld wallow with generalizable scientific findings….