Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
@pichi
3,000 domesticated deer live in the city of Nara. I think I fed and met a few hundred of the herd today. Nara is the ancient capital of Japan before Kyoto and the deer have been a part of Nara as long as its written history goes. A god in the form of a great white stag brought the deer to the city and promised that as long as the people took care of the deer, he would protect the city from natural disaster. The capital was moved because of deforestation not natural disasters. Every temple that survived wars has been untouched by natural disasters, only human ones. There are special crackers called “senbei” that you are allowed to feed the deer. They bow politely as ask for crackers. It’s adorable.
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Have not seen one before though Are they harmful?
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Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
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Perfectly safe. They’ve Vlad side by side with humans for at least 1000 years.
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Katy
@olas12
Wait they live for 1000years ? You mean same calendar year with us or they have there way of counting their own
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Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
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The herd has been in Nara for over 1,000 years.
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