I've seen the smaller ones go through the strands of barbed wire many times. They do this skilfully but it's not without hazard. I've also seen a picture of a deer impaled on such a fence having got into difficulties - very upsetting. Now it looks as if the larger animals are also squeezing through. The hind on the right seems to be half way through.
One might calculate that they find this preferable to landing on the other side where the vegetation could have become a problem or the wildlife trust may have considerately left a pile of branches. I remember the young stag three years ago who broke two legs jumping over only to land in such a pile.
It's fairly easy to see their preferred route here and at one point somebody decided to make things easier for them using wire cutters. Rather typically SRWT did not find out about this for many months, risking perhaps a cattle breakout. If that had happened it would have been hard to have any sympathy for them.
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