Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

New Zealand Deer Lift, Part II (21x7)

: 16, 1983

Jim Fowler joins in the airlifting of the overly abundant red deer by helicopter out of an area so dense that choppers can't land. A dart-gun is used which tranquilize and at the same time attaches a tiny radio telemetry transmitter to the animal for tracking purposes. The deer is placed in a canvas bag and lifted to a large boat in a fjord nearby. Part II takes Fowler to the remote snow covered peaks of Alp-like country where a special pair of net guns are used to capture more red deer. The deer are then transported to a farm and kept in dark pens for a time and released to mountain pastures and watched by a trained border collie dog.