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Headline : Young Deer Has Trouble With Large Ant
Caption : This young roe deer was pictured having a spot of bother with a large ant in the woods in Surrey, UK.

Wildlife photographer William Harvey explains: “The very young Roe Deer is struggling with a Wood Ant. The kid is probably no more than a couple of weeks old; at that age the mother often hides the young while she goes off to graze. Normally they're pretty well hidden, so I was quite surprised to spot this one relatively exposed near the side of a track. Obviously in such a situation you do everything to ensure you're not causing any disturbance to the animal, so I was a little worried when it started to fidget a bit. Looking through the long lens I was using, I could see the cause of irritation was not me, but a large Wood Ant that had crawled onto it. Over the course of the next minute or so, I captured a few photos as the deer tried to remove it - and eventually succeeds, with the ant dropping to the ground in the final image, as well as the couple of shots in the middle of the sequence where the two are essentially "nose to nose".”
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