You see how amazing this place is?
Just one line from the deer biscuit seller and you’ve got busloads of tourists unknowingly reinforcing the deer for bowing for their treat!
But there are some problems with this system as well, I’ll show you more in tomorrow’s black and white post. ; )
Ending this post with awful blurry pictures of this deer that strongly reminded us of Donna!!
About positive reinforcement training
Rewarding your dog immediately for the good behaviour he displayed, encourages him to repeat the desired behaviour. Consistent reforcement helps to form the desired behaviour into a habit for the dog.
– humanesociety.org
About Nara Park
This was a day trip we made to the Nara Deer Park, when we visited Kyoto, Japan. It’s a large park dotted with various temples across the wooded landscape. As tourists make their way from one pit stop to another, they have lots of opportunities to meet and feed the deer.
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nara_Park
– official webpage in japanese
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Poodle At Play
Wow that looks like such a cool place…and all the little deer! Cute!
jansfunnyfarm
That was a neat post. We enjoyed the bowing deer.
Bernie Mac
Brilliant photos. I’d love to go and visit that place, it looks amazing!
Kyla
Hope you didn’t see any hunters.
weliveinaflat
The deer are a national treasure and protected from hunters ;)
Chewy the Golden
Haha I would’ve gone for the lazy deer, too. Not too greedy, but still thankful!
Pretty cool how all the deer can roam around freely with the visitors!
Jo Bryant
very creative post …what lovely animals
Olive
Hahaha, love the last picture – hoomins you are all suckers for cute!
Cee Neuner
These are beautiful photos!!! :) :)
weliveinaflat
Thank you :)
M. K. Clinton
What an amazing adventure! The photos are great and I can’t wait until tomorrow’s B & W.
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Ruckus the Eskie
Wow! What gorgeous photos of the deer. My sapiens have been to Japan before and visited a temple where the deers roamed freely. IS this like that? Happy Sepia Saturday! Thanks for sharing.
weliveinaflat
I think it would probably be similar, Ruckus :)
Roxy the Traveling Dog
Wow, interesting. Are the deer really fat? That’s a lot of food food such small deer.
weliveinaflat
They rangers feed the deer grain at the end of the day, so the biscuits would be on top of their regular diet of grain and grass. I can’t tell whether they are fat or not though, but it was very near to winter by then and it was the tourist off peak season, so I guess they probably have less access to the deer biscuits than during the peak travel season.
2browndawgs
What an interesting place. I hope the deer are not over fed.