WOW: Astonishing footage of deer killing hawk to save rabbit! (Bambi saves Thumper!)

[hlthe2b]

Circle of life and all that, but good on ya, little deer for saving Thumper!

[Arkansas Granny]

1. That's sad. I guarantee there are more rabbits in the wild than hawks.

[hlthe2b]

3. Not in my neighborhood. Though I provide hiding spaces for them, I see "parts" constantly

between the red-tailed hawks, great-horned owls and prairie falcons. That is when it isn't song birds or kittens.

Nice to see the little guy make it occasionally.

[Kali]

2. that is pretty wild

rabbits will scream and that may have stimulated the deer, but I didn't hear anything. more rabbits than birds of prey so not sure I would cheer the vignette, but it sure is interesting.

[hlthe2b]

6. It did scream right when the hawk got him. Believe me I know as I too have intervened on

occasion to prevent a hawk from getting too many. (Not physically, of course). It is a typical morning sighting here. But, I've never seen a deer intervene, that is for sure.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. Funny that a preditor, like we humans, roots for the prey and against the fellow preditor.

[hlthe2b]

7. We are quite often the prey as well--for large carnivores and other humans. Think about it.

[Under The Radar]

5. Damn, Bambi is is the defender of the forest!

[CloudWatcher]

8. Yes and no

Killing hawk? Yes. But to save the rabbit? That's a whole lot of projection

The deer had no use for the hawk, but tbd why. It could be that it confused the rabbit's cry for that of a fawn, or (my guess) it had a fawn nearby and was in "defend my territory" mode.

We had a mama moose with a newborn calf in our yard a couple weeks ago. And that charge was very reminiscent of the running I saw the mama do when another moose got too close. I suspect the deer had a fawn just off camera and was defending it.

Astonishing footage in any event!

[hlthe2b]

9. You are taking the amusing subject line waaaaaay too seriously.

That said, we really don't know, now, do we? We've certainly seen something like this happen with orphaned animals raised in captivity.

[CloudWatcher]

11. True enough

I admit I get triggered by anthropomorphism. For all we know the rabbit and the deer were raised together in captivity and released into the wild. Or possibly the deer was a Martian in disguise fighting off the hawk from Andromeda. Interesting video in any event!

[Hortensis]

10. This'd be my best guess.

[OhZone]

12. Herbivores sticking together!

[smirkymonkey]

18. That was kind of my take on it!

Anyway, I was on team Rabbit & Deer.

[Sophiegirl]

13. Gives a whole new meaning...

To the circle of life.

[Marcuse]

14. Whattaboutism/Bothsiderism.

[underpants]

15. Let's play Deer Hawk Rabbit

Like Rock Paper Scissors

[yardwork]

20. Thread win.

[pansypoo53219]

16. poor hawk.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. Bambi's a psycho killer. NT

[Duppers]

19. Hated hawks since 1 picked my pet wild squirrel

off my deck. (Folks would be surprised about how intelligent that squirrel was.)

Good for the deer!

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

21. K&R

Unbelievable!

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Wow!

[skypilot]

23. The hawk owed the deer money.

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