Why is the new forest called the new forest
Chasing Wildlife in the New Forest
the new forest is an area of large open
and forested land in the South of
England the lowland environments here
being home to some of the few remaining
habitats of the region the wildlife here
is extremely diverse and includes the
iconic new forest pony since there's so
much animal life in the reason we
thought we'd take a field trip here and
see what we can find the first thing we
came across on our wildlife expedition
was some horse droppings so something
about it
this is horse poo and you can tell that
we've got like five flies on it in some
hay and only horses eat hey cows
actually and flyers apparently from this
scat you can tell a great deal about the
animals diet obviously a lot of grass
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after having some problems crossing a
large puddle
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we found an animal we'd all been hoping
to see the new forest ponies these are
some of the new forest ponies and
they've lived in this region for
hundreds of thousands of years they feed
of grass very small insects
Doug then tried out his David
Attenborough impression they likely
drast and hey small mammals such as
rabbits and sometimes small children
this one here was born four seconds ago
as you can see famous and neck collar is
always starting to develop reaching the
floor another aim we had on this trip
was to set up our motion sensing game
camera somewhere so he spent a while
looking for a suitable location to leave
it
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Wayne
pretty cool hungry huh plates call is
that yeah you can chip away in it and
make up and few chips out of it
eventually we found a good place to put
the camera all right so we got this game
camera here we'll just set it up around
this tree and we're gonna leave it for a
couple of hours come back and hug feels
still be here now we'll see what it's
called maybe some deer some rabbits or
something yeah in mountain lion come
over sometimes and yeah totally fries
they're quite common yeah
we also came across some more droppings
after setting up the camera this is some
feces here it's fully rabbit or hare we
can actually see if we look inside none
taken
but yeah Berrien hair quite cold around
here can see around nearby rabbit hair
quite common across the whole of South
of England so not a big surprise if it's
significantly bigger like this but Pooh
and lonely be surprised but there isn't
so we then had some more problems
crossing some streams but fortunately we
all made it alright got yet another
river crossing is actually the same
Rizzoli
yeah
here we see a log spider's web in it
which means there are Lions nearby
because the spiders are eaten by a
massive or sort of small birds and the
smaller birds are eaten by massive birds
and then the camera won't focus but in
those bigger birds and then eaten by
deer and antelope which is then in turn
eaten by mountain lions a mountain lions
are indigenous to the new forest
hopefully we'll get a view of them today
actually and that's how food chains work
in the mountain lion gets eaten by the
human and then the human gets eaten by
the spider so I've got to be really
careful actually there's an actually
spider there no it's just a web these
rhododendron are an invasive species to
the UK they originated in the Himalayas
they're particularly bad in the new
forests because believes the poisonous
to the native ponies they're also very
bad because of how dense they are it
means that other plants can't grow where
they are a very interesting fence then
got our attention this bit of wood here
is put in to makes your heads and foxes
and rabbits can crawl underneath and get
where they want to in the new forest the
fence is of course primarily here to
stop humans getting the other side of
the fence because they're not really
allowed the other side
how do you manage that
okay well as you can see this bit of
wood here doesn't work for humans as
well so quite function actually later on
we again came across some more droppings
but excitingly we think it may have
belonged to a badger it's bit of poo
here is probably badger poo usually
found in this kind of shallow pit that
we see here looks like it contains some
kind of bugs and beetles which is of
course the diet of the badger Badgers
you don't normally see them out in the
day you can in the night if you're
careful but they're generally quite shy
of humans so seeing some badger poo it's
quite treat in a weird way yeah if you
zoom in close on that bit there that's a
bit of beetle so if you eat beetle
that's what your peas gonna go right if
any of you guys think it's anything else
let us know after that we headed back to
pick up the game camera and see if it
had caught anything interesting
unfortunately it had not I think images
yeah
out here in the British countryside
we're on the lookout for one main thing
British big cats and there's a potential
future video
after braving food yet more large
puddles we found our way to a deer
sanctuary where there was more of a
guarantee to actually see some animals
we've come to this viewing area to try
and have a look at some deer that lives
in the new forest
these animals are fallow dead and most
of the individuals here seem to still be
in their darker winter coats fallow deer
are not native to southern Britain but
were in fact brought here either by the
Romans or Normans and are now present
across much of Britain amongst this
population you can also see what appear
to be white variations
these are leucistic individuals a
condition this is actually not that
uncommon in fallow der leucism is the
loss of several different types of
pigments that then causes the code to be
white but it's different from albinism
thank you very much for watching this
little documentary on the new forest and
we'll see you next week hopefully you
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