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Free-ranging Domestic Reindeer In The Cairngorms

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30 July 2015. On Cairngorm Mountain, in the car park where the funicular station is.

These were difficult to photograph, as they would keep on running, so when they eventually stopped, you managed to catch up with them, but as soon as you did that, they would start running again (this was being to the left of them).
 
No, the term is wild, not feral.

Really? The term feral literally means having been returned to the wild from a domesticated state. This is a perfect example of feral, not wild.
 
Really? The term feral literally means having been returned to the wild from a domesticated state. This is a perfect example of feral, not wild.

I agree, but what I was meaning was that certain people consider them wild, not feral.
 
You're making no sense, they, the people responsible for maintaining them/ looking after the area consider them wild, but you seem to disagree with that for some stupid reason. Yes, they can be considered feral, but just because you think that doesn't mean you have to throw a hissy fit if someone disagrees.

And the post I said wild not feral, is because I purposefully chose that word, and did not mean feral.
 
People can call them and consider them wild or whatever they want. That does not change the fact that they are, by definition, feral animals. This is a very common misconception, so I mean no offense to anyone, but in this case jbnbsn99 is correct. Here in the western USA there is a similar misunderstanding about free ranging horse. Almost everyone (including the BLM authorities in charge) calls them wild horses, but they are not, they are feral horses.
 

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