slparker wrote:The backstrap is arguably the best cut of venison so I'd say a hunter has been at work.
I imagine wild dogs or dingos would be a bit less precise with their dissection - but I am just surmising that
slparker wrote:It's been decades since I shot a deer but standard practice was to gut the deer, leave the offal and carry the rest out.
We wouldn't have contemplated cutting off a fillet and leaving good meat rot and/or the remains near a campground.
Probably bogans at work.
Moondog55 wrote:Well on a personal level I do disagree as I feel that all introduced animals allowed to run wild and breed freely are definitely "Feral"
Foxes, hares , rabbits, camels, cats, donkeys and horses are considered feral as a matter of course; why exempt deer species?
Moondog55 wrote:Well on a personal level I do disagree as I feel that all introduced animals allowed to run wild and breed freely are definitely "Feral"
Foxes, hares , rabbits, camels, cats, donkeys and horses are considered feral as a matter of course; why exempt deer species?
Baeng72 wrote:Since we're getting into pedantry.
Feral can mean never domesticated and domesticated run wild.
Feral: existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
having reverted to the wild state, as from domestication: a pack of feral dogs roaming the woods.
of or characteristic of wild animals; ferocious; brutal.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/feral
: of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast feral teeth feral instincts
2a : not domesticated or cultivated : wild feral animals
b : having escaped from domestication and become wild feral cats
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feral
If you want an argument from etymology, feral is from Latin fera and just means wild animal.
I expect this to convince nobody. And I don't have access to Oxford dictionary and as English isn't standardized, Oxford isn't definitive.
Baeng72 wrote:Well, I think language is loose enough that if it's wild, it's feral, and the animal's past is nobody's business.
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commando wrote:The only pest species mother earth has to worry about has two legs and watches tv.
CraigVIC wrote:$18 million for deer control in the Victorian budget today. They're in the official press release as "feral deer"
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