Жук-олень: рыцарь с рогами, который исчезает из наших лесов навсегда

A warm June evening. An old oak tree stands at the edge of the forest, the air filled with the scent of bark and leaves warmed by the day. The sun has almost set, and everything around is fading and growing quiet. And suddenly, in the twilight, a low, heavy, bass hum is heard. A huge beetle flies slowly, ponderously, as if reluctantly submitting to the air, toward the oak tree. Dark, shiny, the size of a good finger. And on its head is something breathtaking: enormous, branching appendages, like real antlers, jutting forward, as if ready to tear something apart. It's a stag beetle. The largest beetle in Europe. A creature that looks as if it has flown to us straight from the age of dinosaurs.