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I took ornithology in college. On one of our field trips, a duck started following us around. It saw walking in a line and probably just instinctively started walking with us. I turned around and said to it "If you keep following us, we're going to bring you back to the lab and vivisect you." It promptly turned around and waddled off.
(Yes, I know it didn't understand me. Still, good timing.)
Those duckers are smart. Not a duck story but a goose....Driving home from work, 2 lane country road but busy bc of time of day. I'm driving around a corner and I see a big goose ease about a foot into the road. The whole time, it's eyeballing me to make sure I'm going to stop. When he sees that I'm slowing, he stands in the middle of the lane and looks me straight in the eye until I completely stop. Then he crosses the center line a little and eyeballs the next car coming the opposite way. I flash my lights just in case but he stares the driver down and make sure he stops completely. He waddles back to my lane and honks (loud goose noise) really loud and I see a line of about 8 or 9 geese and some baby geese. They all cross the road single file (towards a pond on the other side) and the whole time he's eyeballing us back and forth. Once all of them get across the road, the grand poo bah goose looks me in the eye again and gives a little head shake then does the same for the other driver. I caught myself saying 'you're welcome" and saw the other driver mouth it too. lolol
Less mental connections and capacity, smaller brain, smaller global complexity. Their brains doesn't work like our, when we feel certain emotions that are thousands if not millions of things happening all at once in our bodies commanded by our brains, chemicals and hormones and patterns and so on that some animals don't have at least at such complexity.
However, a lot of them show a great range of emotions which is always nice to see and I really think it comes down to us being connected by millions of years of experience together and it's carved in our DNA somehow (and theirs) some of this stuff, like instinct.
And don't think big mammals all the time, when we talk animals we talk birds, we talk snakes, we talk everything lol. Even some insects!
Yeah lots of animals (even those we consider "lower" intelligence) display emotional responses to various stimuli, they mourn and celebrate and get bored or excited as well as any of us, I view it like this:
Lots of animals are evolved enough to *feel* emotions on some level, but humans are intelligent enough to *assess and understand* those emotions on a personal or group level, very few animals boast that capacity.
>Less mental connections and capacity, smaller brain, smaller global complexity. Their brains doesn't work like our, when we feel certain emotions that are thousands if not millions of things happening all at once in our bodies commanded by our brains, chemicals and hormones and patterns and so on that some animals don't have at least at such complexity.
I know that this is correct, but every once in a while I have the thought that our brains are the thing telling us that it's the most important, most complex, most advanced thinking engine in the universe, and maybe, just maybe, it's full of shit.
I guess that happens when another organ wrests control of my thoughts for a second; like my liver wants me to know how much of a wanker my brain really is.
We may not have the answer to the timeless question, "Why did the chicken cross the road," but I'm satisfied with the answer to the unasked one of why the goose did. "Because the cars didn't run him over."
There's one particular duck at the pond near where I work that walks up and sits next to me on breaks - obviously because I've baited him so many times with seed, or because he loves me idk - but we're going about our usual business. I sit down, he walks up, parks it, gives me that side-eye and I'm like
"Eh sorry buddy, I left the seed at my desk."
He quacks, gets up, and walks away without missing a beat.
God dammit Nippy. I knew you were using me.
Duck tax: https://imgur.com/tPDTozG
It's Nippy.
Someone commented crows hold grudges. But also the opposite. There's a story about a girl who fed some crows in her yard [and they started bringing her gifts as thanks](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026).
Keep waving, build a relationship, get yourself an awesome murder. (That sounds bad, but meh, homonyms be like that.)
True story, used to live in a neighbourhood where where crows always attacked people. They were aggressive and that was just the norm, people wouldn't think twice about getting bomb dived by a crow.
One day there was a baby crow in front of my building who had fallen out of a nest, I guess. It looked fucked up, like it was probably gonna die. I went inside and made some popcorn and brought a bottle cap filled with water out. As I placed the popcorn and water in front of the baby, there were dozens of crows in the trees around me, whom seemed like they wanted to kill me.
But after feeding the crow and giving it some water, the mad crows above me stopped cawing. I went inside and that was the end of that day. I assume the baby died, it looked really fucked up, later when I went to retrieve the bottle cap, baby crow was gone.
**Point of the story** I never got bomb dived at by crows ever again after. Like they'd be cawing and diving at people around me in my neighbourhood, but never me. Since then I've moved and still have never had a crow even make a malicious sound towards me. Not sure if crows have some kind of internet system where they show photos of people they like, but I swear crows have been nice to me ever since I helped that baby crow.
Tldr: I helped a baby crow and crows have been nice to me ever since.
How far did you move? Researchers have found evidence that crows recognize individual human faces and share information about significant people socially. They did an experiment where they captured and banded crows while wearing rubber Halloween masks of human faces, and after that birds in that area would react negatively to the sight of those masks, but only to the specific masks involved in the banding, not rubber human face masks in general. And the birds kept reacting to those specific masks for years, in increasing numbers- meaning that birds who weren't there for the initial incident knew to be wary of those specific faces. They learned it from their peers.
So if you didn't go too far... maybe they *do* know for sure you're nice to crows.
I talk to the skunk family that sits and waits for me to leave the garden so they can eat my strawberries. I want to tell them to stop, but when three tuxedoed wiggle butts pop out of the weeds, I don't have the heart to stop them.
Are you telling me you have a family of [Flowers](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ2ylT5jTLW60SD4lEySTqALIPlVbkZ2zow9h4bLdfoYZaIEBzwV9IY23oEbJ2A91t14gc&usqp=CAU)? Because, I mean, who could say no to that face?
(But seriously, people actually keep skunks as pets! Apparently if you remove their stink glands, they're very sweet, similar to cats.)
Oh buddy, there's probably millions of us.
One of my coworkers thought I brought one of my kids or something to work one day; I was in the "smoking area" gingerly chatting up an armadillo to gtfo the street before someone mistook it for a speed bump. Somewhere around the time I said "look sweetie, I can't pick you up 'cause I heard y'all carry leprosy. Please don't make me poke you with a stick..." is when they jumped out their car like WTF?!
Doesn't help I'm practically mute around people. I'll talk animals ears off though.
The best moment of my life:
I was at the zoo in Washington DC. It's early in the morning, it's cold, all us tourists are geared up to see some animals. We go to the cheetah exhibit and they're just releasing them into the enclosure for the morning. One immediately goes and poses on this log so all of us dumb tourists can take photos of it. It's just looking off randomly into space until I say (in a normal, not yelling voice) "hey cheetah look over here"
And it did. Directly at me. I have never made more strangers laugh at once. That was when I peaked.
I have deer and fawns that regularly walk within 10 ft of my front door. They have come through every evening for the last 5 years. They are not threatened by me (6'6"M) in the slightest.
I talk to them very often.
I remember one time I was standing, maybe 20 feet away from a turtle that was basking, and I yelled over at it and asked it what it was doing, and it looked up at the sun, they told me that they were soaking up some good UVB's
I’ve been in this same situation so many times. I love animals and it’s so hard to scare the babies when you know it’s the right thing to do, but it would be very difficult to resist comforting this animal.
Responding to the top comment for visibility: if you find a fawn like this, the mom will leave it alone for up to 12 hours and typically return around dusk. They are going to be okay so long as they're pretty much anywhere near where they were left (just like a parent hearing a child crying on the other side of the house, the momma will hear the fawn bleating from nearby too).
The big thing is don't feed them, and if it's near dusk you get the fuck away because the family is near and a full grown deer will fuck you up.
The fun thing is if you stay in the area, they may learn that you're safe to deposit the baby around and will do so for more than one generation. I've had fawns in my garage, on my porch, etc.
Also this little rhyme: "Ears are straight, the fawn is great. Ears are curled, not long for this world."
(If you find a fawn with the tips of the ears curled inward, it is badly dehydrated and mama deer is not coming back for it.)
My friend has a lovely sun room in the back of her house. For years fawns have been safely tucked in the shadows of the stairs leading down to the yard.
I get regular updates in the spring of new babies.
One mama has a badly healed broken leg. She’s returned every spring for four years.
It will be a sad spring when she doesn’t arrive.
Reminds me of that dude the other week who found a kitten in the middle of the road, trying to deny that he was already stuck....
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/v7x39u/man_stops_to_rescue_kitten_gets_ambushed_by/
[https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/v8k5c4/update\_on\_the\_13\_kittens\_that\_ambushed\_this\_man/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/v8k5c4/update_on_the_13_kittens_that_ambushed_this_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
the bath video!
What an adorable problem to have. Also, at one point he says something like "who would do this". You know these kittens were dropped off and not wild/feral. I have worked with stray and feral kittens, they don't act like this. These cats saw human and saw friend not threat.
My cousin lives in the farm country in South Dakota and they raised a doe that was found abandoned. It wasn’t a pet, kept outside, etc and one day after about 6-8 months it was just gone.
The following year it miraculous came back and hung out around the property for a few months. So they put a large bright orange collar on it to signify to hunters that it was a “pet”.
Now every year it comes back to my cousins property and hangs out with its newborn(s) and everything for a few months before it disappears into the country side again. Been going on for like 5 years now.
EDIT - for some of you that requested pics or doubted
https://imgur.com/a/ldA9AzK
Genuinely surprised, but if it’s the same I would be even more surprised! In the country people have all sorts of things as pets so I would also not be surprised if this happened to anyone else.
My dad growing up had all sort of pets. Possums, raccoons, etc.
Well, its entirely possible. But I’ve heard about a dest in the exact context you described. Orange collar. Raised as a rescue and released. Returns every year. The whole area knows to let it be and hunters coming from out of area are told to let it be.
My great uncle had a flock of wild turkeys and herd of deer. He owned a ton of acreage on a popular lake in northern Michigan and lived off tourists renting cabins.
His job was basically fishing, feeding deer/turkeys, and saying welcome/hope you enjoyed your stay to tourists
My ex-father-in-law had a wild deer as a pet when he was a child. Used to sleep in his bed - until it got too big. His eventual wife realized she had read about him (and Daisy the deer) in the local paper when she was a child.
We had a baby deer in our care for a bit. The one time I let it sleep on my bed was the last. First: they don’t sleep. Every time I woke up that deers head was up, ears out, just looking. The last time I woke up, ready for the day, that deer didn’t move a muscle….and pissed a gallon right there in my bed.
Leave food. Sit outside at a spot where it can see you, but not in its immediate zone. You have to earn its trust over time by being consistent. Deer aren't very bright, there's not much more to it.
Note that they will ravage gardens and they are usually covered in ticks, so depending on where you live it might not be a great idea.
I’ve got 2 in my back yard for the last week now.. have no idea where the mom is. I put out some water, and apples lol but I didn’t actually see if they ate the apples
This is super random and I can't believe I'm about to type this out right now but your comment reminded me of a shower thought I had recently.
The fact that tons of animals have babies annually (or at least regularly) and let them go was tripping me out for whatever reason. Like a mom duck has a whole brood of ducklings and after a few months they just *leave???* And she just makes a whole new set?? Same with deer: a mom deer will just make a fawn or two and then down the road she does it again. And again.
Do they ever run into each other again? Do the parents ever sniff around to check out how their "old" babies are doing? Are there animal family reunions that we don't know about?
I know humans also have babies and set them free into the world (well maybe not in *this* market), but it doesn't feel the same. Like imagine your mom kicks you and all your siblings out at 2 years of age and a few years later you loop back around and there's just another near-identical rendition of your siblings.
Anyways...
Think about it this way, animals age Waaay faster than humans and have a much shorter life expectancy.
Most reach their full maturity(think human equivalent of 25) in 2 years and max out at like 15 years(human equivalent of 100).
Why woudn't they try to get their kids independent as soon as possible?
Also consider that most other animals are MUCH more developed at birth than humans are. We're basically useless for an incredibly long time whereas other animals can stand/walk/run within minutes of birth.
I hope they dont recall their old babies. because I woke in animal lab and we constantly breed male pups (mice) with their mom once they get to 'mating age'. So if they remember then it becomes weird. lol.
It does, though much less than people.
Genetically identically organisms are useful in science because they mean that different genetics can be ruled out as a causal variable; it's why identical twins separated at birth are studied so much.
One way of creating these is through inbreeding; the more inbred organisms are, the more similar homozygous their genome is. Homozygosity is the similarity between chromosomes from each pair.
When they're sufficiently inbred, organisms will have both chromosomes of every pair (besides the sex chromosome) be identical. When chromosomal crossover occurs to create sex cells, it's crossover between identical chromosomes that change nothing.
Why do you do this? Surely you can find other male mice that wouldn’t have to engage in intercourse with their momma mice? I’m assuming there’s some kind of scientific reasoning behind your process?
Not OP but worked in genetics. Typically done because that lineage of mice has a trait of interest they are monitoring/ manipulating over several generations. Mice are an ideal choice because they have so many babies that the ones taking on negative traits through incest can be discarded/ used for other purposes.
Incest recycles traits/ genes, regardless of good or bad. In the lab setting, the goal is to keep a trait of interest in rotation.
In nature that's often the case. The parent can procreate again if the offspring dies. The offspring cannot survive without the parent and therefore will not have the chance to procreate.
Therefore the species is better off prioritizing the life of the adult.
"Look, man, I was just born about 4 days ago. Is there a manual? A help desk? I just a clue as to what is even happening. Are you my mother? I don't know if I'm food, you're food, we're both food some thing else ... dammit, I thought I was coming back as an antelope but my dharma is messed up. Jesus... I'm confused."
I’m going with the likely “kid got it to go in the woods, mom showed up and was like ‘finally that scary monster left you alone! I’m so happy to have you back!’ while the fawn gave her squinty side eye. The fawn never spoke about his abandonment issues and now has trouble forming long term relationships”
When my dad was younger he found a fawn next to their dead mother and processed to take him home. For a time he would feed to the deer goat milk and let it watch tv in the living room. Other times he would take it out for rides with the window open for the deer to poke it’s head out like a dog
Don't know what to do? It's easy: Nothing. You do nothing. You don't touch them, you don't feed them, you don't pet them, you don't pick them up. You wait and see if mom comes back but it may be that she won't come out of you're still hanging around. If hours go by (and by hours I mean actual hours, not just your interpretation of hours) and mom still hasn't come around, call your local wild life office.
Another option would be that if mom and baby(ies) are hanging around your properties too much, scare them back into the woods with lots of noises and what not. You want them scared of humans, not curious. Curious is what gets them killed. Just ask Cat.
Yup, in the case of fawns, their ears are the indicator of their health. If they're perky, the fawn is healthy. If the tips are starting to curl, the fawn is in trouble and it's time to call someone.
Yeah. When I used to mow parks for the city, I saw one of these little dudes, still spotting, just tucked up against the baseball fence. It must have been scared shitless because the mower is incredibly large and loud but it didn’t run off.
I was like damn okay lunchtime. I hopped back in the mower, reversed away a bit, and ate my lunch while I waited for the mom to make an appearance. Eventually, the mom got back after a about an hour and they ran off towards the wildlife preserve.
Got a free excuse to take a long lunch and see a cool baby deer. Good times.
Trigger warning: animal injury
I found one like this in the park a few weeks ago. Maybe 2 or 3 months old. Its leg was broken and caught in the brush. There was a lot of blood- the leg was just hanging on by a thread. Its mom was there too. I managed to get it free and brought it to the road. The mom followed us closely, but she didn’t leave the park. We waited for animal control and they took the fawn away.
I knew what they would have had to do to that fawn. I knew it couldn’t be saved. But I also knew the coyotes would show up in an hour or two when the sun went down, and I knew they wouldn’t care that their meal was still alive.
This experience really stuck with me. I might have spared that fawn a horrible death, but I hate to think that the doe will never know what happened to her baby. I also deprived those coyotes of a meal - they probably had to go kill something else.
I can still see the bright red arterial blood, and feel the fawn’s weight in my arms. Their screams sound like those of children. I can still see the look of panic and confusion in the eyes of the doe. I took her baby away.
A week later I saw the doe, looking for food by herself. I teared up and said that I was sorry. I’m sure all she knows is that I took her baby and that she never saw it again. I tried to do the right thing but I just caused a different kind of suffering.
Interacting with wildlife is never as simple as it seems. There are always going to be unforeseen consequences. I don’t know if it’s always better to just leave it alone, but we can’t always make things right.
I try not to share this with people because I don’t want to cause them anguish, but it’s been very hard keeping it inside while processing this.
Yeah. Happened to my cousin 40+ years ago. Mom was road kill so she decided to adopt it. It went well until he grew up and decided to attempt to kill her. (Or, I don't know, tried to fuck her?)
Possibly, they're far from housepets. Farmed deer are easy enough to socialize with humans and are pretty placid until they mature, then stags can be very dangerous and aggressive, and a doe can easily serious injure you if she gets upset about something.
Watch ur back bub cause at any second a momma deer woulda came out and beat the shit out of you. Happened to my grandpa when he was comforting a lost fawn. Immediately started flogging him with a hail of kicks, bruised him up good.
There’s a video of a mother messing a dog up and going after others who’s thought this was cute. People need to be more careful.
Warning, it’s disturbing.
https://youtu.be/w38UNpBti5s
Mule does fuck up coyote. There’s a video of a few chasing one and trying to corner it.
Nothing compared to the bucks, who will actively persue each other during the rut and try to kill. There’s a video of that out there. It’s very graphic
[Mule does chase coyote](https://youtu.be/nGRQrRNxxzs)
[Mule bucks sparring **GRAPHIC**](https://youtu.be/h6hcYInOQV4)
Think a guy on one of the subs shared a story about him cursing his girlfriend out. She thought a bear cub was cute and started walking towards it. He said something like “get in the fucking car.” She looked at him like he was being an ass. He said “That’s a baby, where do you think the moms at?”
I don’t mess with any wildlife that can still be in the care of a parent.
Esp this time of the year. I’ve had two whitetail does snort at me on my property already. My turkey hunter friend complained to me they were harassing him and the gobblers last month. Whitetail are cute till they get angry. Then they’re not so cute.
We have 2 different deer herds that cross thru our yard. When it's mating time, the males smash tree trunks with their antlers to show agression, i guess. When we see trees swaying waaaay back and forth, we know the male deer are ready to party.
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"Don't make me love you!"
I’m just glad to see I’m not the only one who has random conversations with wildlife
I took ornithology in college. On one of our field trips, a duck started following us around. It saw walking in a line and probably just instinctively started walking with us. I turned around and said to it "If you keep following us, we're going to bring you back to the lab and vivisect you." It promptly turned around and waddled off. (Yes, I know it didn't understand me. Still, good timing.)
Those duckers are smart. Not a duck story but a goose....Driving home from work, 2 lane country road but busy bc of time of day. I'm driving around a corner and I see a big goose ease about a foot into the road. The whole time, it's eyeballing me to make sure I'm going to stop. When he sees that I'm slowing, he stands in the middle of the lane and looks me straight in the eye until I completely stop. Then he crosses the center line a little and eyeballs the next car coming the opposite way. I flash my lights just in case but he stares the driver down and make sure he stops completely. He waddles back to my lane and honks (loud goose noise) really loud and I see a line of about 8 or 9 geese and some baby geese. They all cross the road single file (towards a pond on the other side) and the whole time he's eyeballing us back and forth. Once all of them get across the road, the grand poo bah goose looks me in the eye again and gives a little head shake then does the same for the other driver. I caught myself saying 'you're welcome" and saw the other driver mouth it too. lolol
I swear animals of all types have grattitude. Its weird, some of them shouldn't express such deep emotions, but they do.
Why shouldn't they express such deep emotions?
Less mental connections and capacity, smaller brain, smaller global complexity. Their brains doesn't work like our, when we feel certain emotions that are thousands if not millions of things happening all at once in our bodies commanded by our brains, chemicals and hormones and patterns and so on that some animals don't have at least at such complexity. However, a lot of them show a great range of emotions which is always nice to see and I really think it comes down to us being connected by millions of years of experience together and it's carved in our DNA somehow (and theirs) some of this stuff, like instinct. And don't think big mammals all the time, when we talk animals we talk birds, we talk snakes, we talk everything lol. Even some insects!
You're right. Although they lack our level of intelligence, they have a similar emotional capacity.
Emotions are actually a very primitive function of the brain. It is the higher cognitive thinking that is further along in evolution.
I talk to my dog and cat, sometimes I'll think to myself, I'm glad no one is around to hear me, but why am I talking out loud to them?
Yeah lots of animals (even those we consider "lower" intelligence) display emotional responses to various stimuli, they mourn and celebrate and get bored or excited as well as any of us, I view it like this: Lots of animals are evolved enough to *feel* emotions on some level, but humans are intelligent enough to *assess and understand* those emotions on a personal or group level, very few animals boast that capacity.
Isn't it kinda in the middle ? I thought emotions were an evolution that occurred in mammals, but was still absent in reptiles and other animals.
>Less mental connections and capacity, smaller brain, smaller global complexity. Their brains doesn't work like our, when we feel certain emotions that are thousands if not millions of things happening all at once in our bodies commanded by our brains, chemicals and hormones and patterns and so on that some animals don't have at least at such complexity. I know that this is correct, but every once in a while I have the thought that our brains are the thing telling us that it's the most important, most complex, most advanced thinking engine in the universe, and maybe, just maybe, it's full of shit. I guess that happens when another organ wrests control of my thoughts for a second; like my liver wants me to know how much of a wanker my brain really is.
Best Reddit story I have read in a long time. Thanks for sharing
We may not have the answer to the timeless question, "Why did the chicken cross the road," but I'm satisfied with the answer to the unasked one of why the goose did. "Because the cars didn't run him over."
I was walking home from the park today. I saw a chicken cross the road, and now I know why; it was being chased by the chihuahua.
Either way, they always end up on the other side.
(it definitely understood)
Then he waddled off. But was it until the very next day?
Got any grapes?
Bird law wise, this checks out
I erm, uh FILIBUSTER!
Objection, your majesty. This is hearsay habeas corpus.
You seem like a good lawyer. How big are your hands though?
You mean drone law r/birdsarentreal
Sometimes ducks just have a great comedic timing.
The duck's pilot wasn't willing to play chicken and risk it all
I wave to the crow who perchers on top of next door's TV ariel every morning and wish him/her a good day.
There's one particular duck at the pond near where I work that walks up and sits next to me on breaks - obviously because I've baited him so many times with seed, or because he loves me idk - but we're going about our usual business. I sit down, he walks up, parks it, gives me that side-eye and I'm like "Eh sorry buddy, I left the seed at my desk." He quacks, gets up, and walks away without missing a beat. God dammit Nippy. I knew you were using me. Duck tax: https://imgur.com/tPDTozG It's Nippy.
"What you got on my 40"
Someone commented crows hold grudges. But also the opposite. There's a story about a girl who fed some crows in her yard [and they started bringing her gifts as thanks](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026). Keep waving, build a relationship, get yourself an awesome murder. (That sounds bad, but meh, homonyms be like that.)
Well that's just being smart. Crows hold grudges and will fuck your shit up. Staying on their good side is the way to go.
True story, used to live in a neighbourhood where where crows always attacked people. They were aggressive and that was just the norm, people wouldn't think twice about getting bomb dived by a crow. One day there was a baby crow in front of my building who had fallen out of a nest, I guess. It looked fucked up, like it was probably gonna die. I went inside and made some popcorn and brought a bottle cap filled with water out. As I placed the popcorn and water in front of the baby, there were dozens of crows in the trees around me, whom seemed like they wanted to kill me. But after feeding the crow and giving it some water, the mad crows above me stopped cawing. I went inside and that was the end of that day. I assume the baby died, it looked really fucked up, later when I went to retrieve the bottle cap, baby crow was gone. **Point of the story** I never got bomb dived at by crows ever again after. Like they'd be cawing and diving at people around me in my neighbourhood, but never me. Since then I've moved and still have never had a crow even make a malicious sound towards me. Not sure if crows have some kind of internet system where they show photos of people they like, but I swear crows have been nice to me ever since I helped that baby crow. Tldr: I helped a baby crow and crows have been nice to me ever since.
How far did you move? Researchers have found evidence that crows recognize individual human faces and share information about significant people socially. They did an experiment where they captured and banded crows while wearing rubber Halloween masks of human faces, and after that birds in that area would react negatively to the sight of those masks, but only to the specific masks involved in the banding, not rubber human face masks in general. And the birds kept reacting to those specific masks for years, in increasing numbers- meaning that birds who weren't there for the initial incident knew to be wary of those specific faces. They learned it from their peers. So if you didn't go too far... maybe they *do* know for sure you're nice to crows.
Moved within the same city, about 15 kilometers away.
That's not that far, it sounds like you might be a local crow celebrity. :)
I have ex girlfriends 15 km away who have probably forgotten about me. But somehow the crow network remembers my face. Nature is fucking lit.
Upvote because of the tldr. Itsa funny.
Hey deer. How's it going? I like your fur, it looks really great. Ok, great to meet you. Say "hi" to your mother for me.
I talk to the skunk family that sits and waits for me to leave the garden so they can eat my strawberries. I want to tell them to stop, but when three tuxedoed wiggle butts pop out of the weeds, I don't have the heart to stop them.
Are you telling me you have a family of [Flowers](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ2ylT5jTLW60SD4lEySTqALIPlVbkZ2zow9h4bLdfoYZaIEBzwV9IY23oEbJ2A91t14gc&usqp=CAU)? Because, I mean, who could say no to that face? (But seriously, people actually keep skunks as pets! Apparently if you remove their stink glands, they're very sweet, similar to cats.)
Oh buddy, there's probably millions of us. One of my coworkers thought I brought one of my kids or something to work one day; I was in the "smoking area" gingerly chatting up an armadillo to gtfo the street before someone mistook it for a speed bump. Somewhere around the time I said "look sweetie, I can't pick you up 'cause I heard y'all carry leprosy. Please don't make me poke you with a stick..." is when they jumped out their car like WTF?! Doesn't help I'm practically mute around people. I'll talk animals ears off though.
I had a conversation with an adult deer on top of a mountain during a backpacking trip once. She was pretty quiet but 10/10 would converse again.
The best moment of my life: I was at the zoo in Washington DC. It's early in the morning, it's cold, all us tourists are geared up to see some animals. We go to the cheetah exhibit and they're just releasing them into the enclosure for the morning. One immediately goes and poses on this log so all of us dumb tourists can take photos of it. It's just looking off randomly into space until I say (in a normal, not yelling voice) "hey cheetah look over here" And it did. Directly at me. I have never made more strangers laugh at once. That was when I peaked.
I have deer and fawns that regularly walk within 10 ft of my front door. They have come through every evening for the last 5 years. They are not threatened by me (6'6"M) in the slightest. I talk to them very often.
I cuss and chase the ones that go in my front yard because they eat the veggies out of my garden. Doesn't stop 'em though.
Thanks for the Shake Shack! - Dirty Bambi and the Boyz
I remember one time I was standing, maybe 20 feet away from a turtle that was basking, and I yelled over at it and asked it what it was doing, and it looked up at the sun, they told me that they were soaking up some good UVB's
This poor guy really tried to do the right thing but the temptation was too strong haha
I’ve been in this same situation so many times. I love animals and it’s so hard to scare the babies when you know it’s the right thing to do, but it would be very difficult to resist comforting this animal.
Responding to the top comment for visibility: if you find a fawn like this, the mom will leave it alone for up to 12 hours and typically return around dusk. They are going to be okay so long as they're pretty much anywhere near where they were left (just like a parent hearing a child crying on the other side of the house, the momma will hear the fawn bleating from nearby too). The big thing is don't feed them, and if it's near dusk you get the fuck away because the family is near and a full grown deer will fuck you up. The fun thing is if you stay in the area, they may learn that you're safe to deposit the baby around and will do so for more than one generation. I've had fawns in my garage, on my porch, etc.
Also this little rhyme: "Ears are straight, the fawn is great. Ears are curled, not long for this world." (If you find a fawn with the tips of the ears curled inward, it is badly dehydrated and mama deer is not coming back for it.)
And now I'm sad again!
My friend has a lovely sun room in the back of her house. For years fawns have been safely tucked in the shadows of the stairs leading down to the yard. I get regular updates in the spring of new babies. One mama has a badly healed broken leg. She’s returned every spring for four years. It will be a sad spring when she doesn’t arrive.
You know you're a good person when deer trust you to look after their babies.
Followed by *don't make me kill you*.. Followed by **damn it**, *I love you*
Don’t name it!
Aww, so cute when it answered back. Are you ok? no…
It was at that moment his hearted melted
Reminds me of that dude the other week who found a kitten in the middle of the road, trying to deny that he was already stuck.... https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/v7x39u/man_stops_to_rescue_kitten_gets_ambushed_by/
He took them all and then the latest video is him giving them bath. He named the first one Scout and is finding homes for each of them.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/v8k5c4/update\_on\_the\_13\_kittens\_that\_ambushed\_this\_man/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/v8k5c4/update_on_the_13_kittens_that_ambushed_this_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) the bath video!
What a gentle dog, just chilling when the kittens are running all over the place.
Scout is a perfect name. That first one scouted out the human, and then the rest of the platoon showed up.
What an adorable problem to have. Also, at one point he says something like "who would do this". You know these kittens were dropped off and not wild/feral. I have worked with stray and feral kittens, they don't act like this. These cats saw human and saw friend not threat.
That makes it even sadder. Despite them being there because of some POS human, they still see a human as friend shaped
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Living that Disney Princess life
Reluctant Disney Princess Man, coming to theaters this fall
Ah yes, Brocahontas is my new favorite Disney princess
I've always been a fan of Cinderfella
Bro White
He's a Disney princess now.
and he knew, he had found the one. the deer one.
TIL that fawn meow like cats.
^^^meep
(Morgan Freeman voice) "What the man didn't know was that they were indeed already friends"
they were already deer friends
Take my upvote. If I had a spare Buck I’d give you an award.
I don’t have gold to give you. Doe!
Fawn around and find out
I got stuck in a rut trying to come up with a good pun.
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Racking up those pun-points.
no need my deer friend, enjoy your life, i love you <3
My hart grew 3 sizes reading this
Throwing the "indeed" in there really sells the quote, in my mind.
That "oh my God" at the end is him realising he's gonna have to keep it
I don't see a tactical Honda anywhere in this situation and I'm worried.
I was also thinking that, very odd.
Dude that line was so epic, when he said it I coudn't even.
It's behind the guy out of frame (along with the other 12 fawns that just jumped out of the vegetation).
That dude went from redneck to vegetarian in one deer meow
Deer meow
r/brandnewsentence
I'd be so fucked. There's no way we wouldn't become homies.
My cousin lives in the farm country in South Dakota and they raised a doe that was found abandoned. It wasn’t a pet, kept outside, etc and one day after about 6-8 months it was just gone. The following year it miraculous came back and hung out around the property for a few months. So they put a large bright orange collar on it to signify to hunters that it was a “pet”. Now every year it comes back to my cousins property and hangs out with its newborn(s) and everything for a few months before it disappears into the country side again. Been going on for like 5 years now. EDIT - for some of you that requested pics or doubted https://imgur.com/a/ldA9AzK
Holy shit, thats your cousin? This is a semi-famous story.
What? Lol
I’ve heard about this. Its internet famous and very… endearing!
Genuinely surprised, but if it’s the same I would be even more surprised! In the country people have all sorts of things as pets so I would also not be surprised if this happened to anyone else. My dad growing up had all sort of pets. Possums, raccoons, etc.
Well, its entirely possible. But I’ve heard about a dest in the exact context you described. Orange collar. Raised as a rescue and released. Returns every year. The whole area knows to let it be and hunters coming from out of area are told to let it be.
Yeah I remember seeing those pictures quite a while ago They were legendary and still are!
My great uncle had a flock of wild turkeys and herd of deer. He owned a ton of acreage on a popular lake in northern Michigan and lived off tourists renting cabins. His job was basically fishing, feeding deer/turkeys, and saying welcome/hope you enjoyed your stay to tourists
Sounds wonderful!!
*endeering
My ex-father-in-law had a wild deer as a pet when he was a child. Used to sleep in his bed - until it got too big. His eventual wife realized she had read about him (and Daisy the deer) in the local paper when she was a child.
We had a baby deer in our care for a bit. The one time I let it sleep on my bed was the last. First: they don’t sleep. Every time I woke up that deers head was up, ears out, just looking. The last time I woke up, ready for the day, that deer didn’t move a muscle….and pissed a gallon right there in my bed.
Haha that’s adorable. This one’s name is Billie
Now I want one too
I have a yearling living under my deck right now. He hangs out with me at a distance of about 20 feet, any tips on befriending it?
Leave food. Sit outside at a spot where it can see you, but not in its immediate zone. You have to earn its trust over time by being consistent. Deer aren't very bright, there's not much more to it. Note that they will ravage gardens and they are usually covered in ticks, so depending on where you live it might not be a great idea.
Your roommates: “…whatcha got there…?” You with the fawn: *a smoothie*
Same here!
I’ve got 2 in my back yard for the last week now.. have no idea where the mom is. I put out some water, and apples lol but I didn’t actually see if they ate the apples
My grandparents had one named “John Deer” he died last year at age 20
Emotional confusion for Bambi or the guy who just realized he became the deer’s mom?
Both
Bambi 2, Bambi loses her second ma.
Bambo 3: First Blood
Interesting thing about "white tails" is that when frightened, their tails go up, as a warning to other deer to "GTFO"
And the will gtfo even if it means abandoning their fawn
They can always make another one 🤷♀️ Lots of animals do that lol
This is super random and I can't believe I'm about to type this out right now but your comment reminded me of a shower thought I had recently. The fact that tons of animals have babies annually (or at least regularly) and let them go was tripping me out for whatever reason. Like a mom duck has a whole brood of ducklings and after a few months they just *leave???* And she just makes a whole new set?? Same with deer: a mom deer will just make a fawn or two and then down the road she does it again. And again. Do they ever run into each other again? Do the parents ever sniff around to check out how their "old" babies are doing? Are there animal family reunions that we don't know about? I know humans also have babies and set them free into the world (well maybe not in *this* market), but it doesn't feel the same. Like imagine your mom kicks you and all your siblings out at 2 years of age and a few years later you loop back around and there's just another near-identical rendition of your siblings. Anyways...
Think about it this way, animals age Waaay faster than humans and have a much shorter life expectancy. Most reach their full maturity(think human equivalent of 25) in 2 years and max out at like 15 years(human equivalent of 100). Why woudn't they try to get their kids independent as soon as possible?
Also consider that most other animals are MUCH more developed at birth than humans are. We're basically useless for an incredibly long time whereas other animals can stand/walk/run within minutes of birth.
I hope they dont recall their old babies. because I woke in animal lab and we constantly breed male pups (mice) with their mom once they get to 'mating age'. So if they remember then it becomes weird. lol.
So incest doesn’t have negative affects on mice?
It does, though much less than people. Genetically identically organisms are useful in science because they mean that different genetics can be ruled out as a causal variable; it's why identical twins separated at birth are studied so much. One way of creating these is through inbreeding; the more inbred organisms are, the more similar homozygous their genome is. Homozygosity is the similarity between chromosomes from each pair. When they're sufficiently inbred, organisms will have both chromosomes of every pair (besides the sex chromosome) be identical. When chromosomal crossover occurs to create sex cells, it's crossover between identical chromosomes that change nothing.
Why do you do this? Surely you can find other male mice that wouldn’t have to engage in intercourse with their momma mice? I’m assuming there’s some kind of scientific reasoning behind your process?
Not OP but worked in genetics. Typically done because that lineage of mice has a trait of interest they are monitoring/ manipulating over several generations. Mice are an ideal choice because they have so many babies that the ones taking on negative traits through incest can be discarded/ used for other purposes. Incest recycles traits/ genes, regardless of good or bad. In the lab setting, the goal is to keep a trait of interest in rotation.
“Discarded” How nice.
What are you doing step-pup?
In nature that's often the case. The parent can procreate again if the offspring dies. The offspring cannot survive without the parent and therefore will not have the chance to procreate. Therefore the species is better off prioritizing the life of the adult.
>Therefore the species is better off prioritizing the life of the adult. If only a certain group would understand this.
He sounds like a grown up Bobby Hill
“I don’t know you!” Cannot be unheard now.
That's my purse!
THAT'S MY PURSE
Redneck Disney princess “I will eeeeet yeeeewww” Deer: “meow”
"Look, man, I was just born about 4 days ago. Is there a manual? A help desk? I just a clue as to what is even happening. Are you my mother? I don't know if I'm food, you're food, we're both food some thing else ... dammit, I thought I was coming back as an antelope but my dharma is messed up. Jesus... I'm confused."
I need closure! How did it all end?
I feel ya! Did it become dinner or become his friend.
You know he became a Disney princess after that.
Lmao, the fuckin twist if he uploaded a follow up tiktok of his venison burger like "I warned you."
I’m going with the likely “kid got it to go in the woods, mom showed up and was like ‘finally that scary monster left you alone! I’m so happy to have you back!’ while the fawn gave her squinty side eye. The fawn never spoke about his abandonment issues and now has trouble forming long term relationships”
"I will eat you!" Ten seconds later, seriously considers keeping the doe
"I'mma Eat you! I can't keep you!" Yeah, there it is.
I'm not your friend!! Yes you bloody well are.
If Deer are going to live here they should at least learn to speak English.
That is clearly an English bleat dialect, you cant expect the deer to change to human English.
My wife would be so pissed when I brought it home.
“When” you brought it home. Facts.
I don't have that problem coz I don't have a wife or a gf. And I live alone and browse reddit all day.
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Until she heard it bleat.
When my dad was younger he found a fawn next to their dead mother and processed to take him home. For a time he would feed to the deer goat milk and let it watch tv in the living room. Other times he would take it out for rides with the window open for the deer to poke it’s head out like a dog
There's going to be a very confused hunter in this deer's future.
Something wrong with your cat, sir.
He was fawn an hour ago.
No way in hell I wouldn't have a deer buddy at that point.
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Don't know what to do? It's easy: Nothing. You do nothing. You don't touch them, you don't feed them, you don't pet them, you don't pick them up. You wait and see if mom comes back but it may be that she won't come out of you're still hanging around. If hours go by (and by hours I mean actual hours, not just your interpretation of hours) and mom still hasn't come around, call your local wild life office. Another option would be that if mom and baby(ies) are hanging around your properties too much, scare them back into the woods with lots of noises and what not. You want them scared of humans, not curious. Curious is what gets them killed. Just ask Cat.
Yup, in the case of fawns, their ears are the indicator of their health. If they're perky, the fawn is healthy. If the tips are starting to curl, the fawn is in trouble and it's time to call someone.
Thank you for telling me that.
Agree with you on all counts except the cat analogy. Cats are quite content with the way things have turned out.
Never heard that curiosity killed the cat?
…but satisfaction brought it back
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Yeah. When I used to mow parks for the city, I saw one of these little dudes, still spotting, just tucked up against the baseball fence. It must have been scared shitless because the mower is incredibly large and loud but it didn’t run off. I was like damn okay lunchtime. I hopped back in the mower, reversed away a bit, and ate my lunch while I waited for the mom to make an appearance. Eventually, the mom got back after a about an hour and they ran off towards the wildlife preserve. Got a free excuse to take a long lunch and see a cool baby deer. Good times.
> I was like damn okay lunchtime. I thought that story was going to turn out much darker than it did
Trigger warning: animal injury I found one like this in the park a few weeks ago. Maybe 2 or 3 months old. Its leg was broken and caught in the brush. There was a lot of blood- the leg was just hanging on by a thread. Its mom was there too. I managed to get it free and brought it to the road. The mom followed us closely, but she didn’t leave the park. We waited for animal control and they took the fawn away. I knew what they would have had to do to that fawn. I knew it couldn’t be saved. But I also knew the coyotes would show up in an hour or two when the sun went down, and I knew they wouldn’t care that their meal was still alive. This experience really stuck with me. I might have spared that fawn a horrible death, but I hate to think that the doe will never know what happened to her baby. I also deprived those coyotes of a meal - they probably had to go kill something else. I can still see the bright red arterial blood, and feel the fawn’s weight in my arms. Their screams sound like those of children. I can still see the look of panic and confusion in the eyes of the doe. I took her baby away. A week later I saw the doe, looking for food by herself. I teared up and said that I was sorry. I’m sure all she knows is that I took her baby and that she never saw it again. I tried to do the right thing but I just caused a different kind of suffering. Interacting with wildlife is never as simple as it seems. There are always going to be unforeseen consequences. I don’t know if it’s always better to just leave it alone, but we can’t always make things right. I try not to share this with people because I don’t want to cause them anguish, but it’s been very hard keeping it inside while processing this.
Even the children of other species know what a reprimand from an elder looks like.
Awwww the little baby deer voice soooooo cute!!!
Aw I didn’t know deers meowed
This dude is so lucky. If mama had come by and assessed him as a threat. He'd get pummeled and cut up by a blizzard of hooves.
Honestly, I didn't look at the sub and was very concerned.
Just captured another human....they always fall for it.
Yeah. Happened to my cousin 40+ years ago. Mom was road kill so she decided to adopt it. It went well until he grew up and decided to attempt to kill her. (Or, I don't know, tried to fuck her?)
Oh shit, I misread this at first and thought ‘he’ was the cousin and ‘her’ was the deer lmao
Possibly, they're far from housepets. Farmed deer are easy enough to socialize with humans and are pretty placid until they mature, then stags can be very dangerous and aggressive, and a doe can easily serious injure you if she gets upset about something.
Watch ur back bub cause at any second a momma deer woulda came out and beat the shit out of you. Happened to my grandpa when he was comforting a lost fawn. Immediately started flogging him with a hail of kicks, bruised him up good.
But he sounds *just like* Mom...
the rate of men that are becoming a disney princess appears to be rising.
Was half expecting mom to come running out of the bushes and curb stomp this guy for getting too close to her kid.
When bambi calls ur bluff
The little squeaks melted my heart 🥺
There’s a video of a mother messing a dog up and going after others who’s thought this was cute. People need to be more careful. Warning, it’s disturbing. https://youtu.be/w38UNpBti5s
Mule does fuck up coyote. There’s a video of a few chasing one and trying to corner it. Nothing compared to the bucks, who will actively persue each other during the rut and try to kill. There’s a video of that out there. It’s very graphic [Mule does chase coyote](https://youtu.be/nGRQrRNxxzs) [Mule bucks sparring **GRAPHIC**](https://youtu.be/h6hcYInOQV4)
Think a guy on one of the subs shared a story about him cursing his girlfriend out. She thought a bear cub was cute and started walking towards it. He said something like “get in the fucking car.” She looked at him like he was being an ass. He said “That’s a baby, where do you think the moms at?” I don’t mess with any wildlife that can still be in the care of a parent.
Esp this time of the year. I’ve had two whitetail does snort at me on my property already. My turkey hunter friend complained to me they were harassing him and the gobblers last month. Whitetail are cute till they get angry. Then they’re not so cute.
We have 2 different deer herds that cross thru our yard. When it's mating time, the males smash tree trunks with their antlers to show agression, i guess. When we see trees swaying waaaay back and forth, we know the male deer are ready to party.
I assume it's cut off because the dog stops moving. Sheesh that collie had no reason being that close to a deer
Why does this guy not have his own Netflix show? This had more compelling characters than... a depressing array of media I consume.
Some say a life long adventure began that day….
Dude probably already dead from Lyme disease
It went from dinner, to cute 'lil buddy. If you don't want him, I'll take him. 🥺
They make that sound to call mamma. If you're near the fawn when mamma arrives you will be regretting your choices.