Kicker: Oh deer!

NICK EICHER, HOST: We humans are a competitive bunch. We’ll even compete over who can sound the most like an animal.

Case in point: The national stag-calling championship in Germany.

This is audio from a trade fair in Dortmund where hunters impersonate red deer. They’re using ox horns and snail shells to do it, even hollow plant stems.

WENZEL: The fascinating thing is to play with the stags in the rut and look if they are coming, if they are not coming, and what they do and what they will do.

And there’s your stag-nificent winner, Fabian Wenzel, making sure he didn’t stag-nate—claiming his fifth straight title and punching his ticket to the European Championships.

REICHARD: Good thing he didn’t go all deer in the headlights.

EICHER: Oh, yeah, he never gets stuck in a rut.

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