{"id":196164,"date":"2025-10-13T02:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196164\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:51:08","slug":"killarneys-annual-red-deer-rut-watch-takes-place-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196164\/","title":{"rendered":"Killarney&#8217;s annual red deer rut watch takes place today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 200 people have joined the Irish Deer Commission in Killarney today for the organisation\u2019s annual red deer rut watch.<\/p>\n<p>The breeding season for wild deer is known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/podcasts\/kerry-today\/primal-sights-sounds-deer-rut-november-2nd-2018-178300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018rut\u2019<\/a> and involves stags roaring out to their competitors and battling with them for the right to mate with does.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/irishdeercommission.ie\/red-deer-rut-watch-event-killarney-national-park-sunday-october-12th-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">event<\/a> got underway\u00a0at a\u00a0location in Killarney National Park at 9am and is co-hosted by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Deer Commission says it\u2019s delighted with the numbers who\u2019ve registered online to watch a spectacle that has taken place in Kerry for\u00a0more than 5,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Close to 200 people have joined the Irish Deer Commission in Killarney today for the organisation\u2019s annual red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85511,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-196164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-killarney-red-deer-rut","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}