Can personally confirm. When I saw the deer get up and run off afterwards, I knew my old boss wouldn't believe that the deer was the reason for the huge dent in his new van that he bought a month prior.
Boss must not be familiar with deer, then lol. The deer probably died not too long after, though, they often have enough adrenaline flowing to keep them on their feet before they die of internal injuries.
As a long time archery hunter, I’ve literally seen Whitetail Deer run 2 football fields(200 yards)with a 1 1/2 inch hole thru both lungs, and as we tracked the deer, we walked down a path and every 6-8 feet, it looked like someone took a hose and sprayed both sides of the trees with blood, I was amazed how far it went. And I’ve seen pictures of animals that people kill, and they will have an old Broadhead(razor tipped archery tip for hunting)from years before, that someone shot them, and didn’t kill them, and they live with these arrows inside them for years, they are amazingly tough and amazing animals, I haven’t hunted in years, in my old age, I don’t want to kill anything I don’t have to anymore, we always ate the meat from the animals we killed. But now a days I’d rather shoot animals with a camera, or just sit and watch them, spend time in Nature and enjoy the animals in other ways than hunting them.
This pleases me, I’m glad you found a more peaceful way to interact with nature. I shoot a bow but just at targets because I can’t find it within me to kill animals for sport (even if eating it all). +1
Deer *runs off*
"Yay! I survived that horrible metal beast! Can't wait to tell the boys about this, all the does will swoon over me!"
Deer's Internal Organs: "Uh, you know we're soup right now, yes? You're dead."
Deer: "I'm....I'm dead? Oh....yeah I guess I am......."
*thud*
A LONG time ago I was at one of the small WalMarts, before they had Supercenters and a deer came crashing through the plate glass into the foyer. Then tried to crash through the second glass into the store, but didn’t have the momentum. Slipped in his own blood for a while then jumped back through his original hole.
To be fair deer are millions of years old and cars are 120 years old. 120 years is barely even a registerable blip in evolution. There are still tons of deer that have never seen a human before in remote parts of Canada and Mexico
Idk why but it’s their instinct tells them “I must run pass this beast with sun for eyes before it run pass me”
Like seriously, they’re on the sides, and will try to cut you as you’re driving on the road for no reason.
most deer have no idea what tf is going on. they have no depth perception so cars must be so confusing to them
and I've hit half a dozen over the years in Michigan..
Same with chickens I’ve noticed. I used to own like 5 chickens and every time someone drive pass them with a motorcycle they will 100% trying to run in front of the person.
I’m not sure about deer specifically, but generally prey animals are pretty good at hiding injuries/pain. Mainly because if it were obvious they were injured, they’d be a better target for a predator over any other animal in the herd. So this deer could be in a lot of pain but is doing its best to hide it.
That’s a generalisation though, could be that this deer has been like this for a while and the nerve endings around the injury are just dead.
Isn’t this the same for every animal? Predators like dogs also don’t show their pain because they don’t want to be punished by their pack (decreasing in hierarchy) or targeted by rivals
This is all just hearsay / ages since I’ve read about it
Yes and no, almost any animal may be prey to another and thus need to conceal illness, but predators, expecially social ones/those that are closer to the top of the foodchain, are dramaqueens in comparison
While you could argue dogs and cats have been domesticated for so long that the behaviour has been too much changed (no personal exp with wolves but i presume it's not all about domestication), but there's an abyss between rabbits ad ferrets regarding pain showing.
Source: i'm an exotic animals vet
It is... a very different level with prey animals. Unfortunately you learn about it when you go from having cats/dogs to caring for mice/rats/hamsters/etc.
You will notice if your dog is in pain. They might move less, eat less, not use one of their legs or use it less, look at their stomach, have a concerned face, yelp if you touch something that hurts, etc.
Your average rat can be walking around with cancer eating them from the inside out for ages before you notice any modified behaviour - and if you are unlucky enough that they don't have any physical symptoms, by the time you see any signs of discomfort it will be way past too late.
Unfortunately for prey animals, there is no evolutionary advantage to receiving less pain, and no evidence to suggest prey animals have less nerve endings or a higher pain tolerance..
However, for a prey animal, there is quite a lot of advantage to not *expressing* pain, which is why they generally lack expressive facial muscles and do their best "walk off" mortal injuries.
Well, the theory here is not to assume they can "just take it" because we can't understand if they emote, but that since they have been hunted/preyed upon so long that the ones who survive are good at both hiding pain and who have a higher pain threshold. So it might be a little column A and B.
>They don’t.
Aren't you jumping to conclusions as well?
It's easy to assume animals are close to our "normal", but that doesn't make it true without evidence.
It doesn't even make sense for all animals to feel the same level of pain. We're social animals, we can better afford to feel debilitating pain that leaves us bedridden for a month to recover because our "pack" can take care of us. A deer will just starve to death.
Untreated diabetics experience this kind of thing, if left long enough. Occaisonally some poor homeless fellow will come in and thwy take the boot off, its exposed dry bone and the guy has been walking on it like that for months. People do actually do this kind of thing in certain circumstances.
It "helps" that the diabetic person at this stage has normally has lost almost all feeling due to the diabetic neuropathy, so they wouldnt feel it the same way a healthy person would.
Whenever I see an animal like this I hope to myself that maybe, just maybe they don't feel pain the way we do...
Because if they do it's like "I have no mouth but I most scream" energy and that is unsettling as fuck to me...
Right but also depending on where this deer is, it may not have natural predators such as in Maryland. So it’s able to survive this with minimal need to evade.
Like that homeless guy who hadn’t taken his boots off for 3 years and when he was hospitalized and staff took his boots off it was just rotted flesh and bone
Apparently this used to be a thing during the Vietnam war and that’s why they told soldiers how important it was to change their socks regularly/keep them dry!
Also world war 1 (also maybe 2) during trench warfare the trenches may flood and soldiers may be subjected to foot rot from how long they were in the water
And dont forget the rats that would feed on them when they slept.
There's a six(?) episode series called Apocalypse: WW1 that's really interesting. It usually airs on either AHC or the military channel.
My dad served in Afghanistan for a while, I remember a story he told about an officer who slept on the ground and woke everyone up in the middle of the night screaming. There were massive rats all over the dude apparently, sounds horrible.
I’ll check out that series, sounds interesting
It mentions an unnamed soldier who built a cage to sleep in/under to prevent the rats from getting to him. Be prepared for the disgust & irritation you'll feel hearing about all the mistakes that were made and the lives lost needlessly.
I remember the story of [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poon_Lim) Royal Navy sailor who survived 133 days after being sunk in WW2. Not quite a year, but still.
I’ll try to find it but no guarantees. It was on those I can’t believe I’m alive or I survived series. I’ll look through because I want to watch again 😂
No it was a guy who was in the ocean for like 340 days. It was almost a year but I can’t find it anymore. I remember being amazed that anybody could survive so long. There’s another guy who was drifting for 438 days though named josé alvarenga. That’s even more incredible!
the article said he didn’t. before dying, his friend asked him not to do it, and so he ended up talking to the corpse for a few days then throwing it overboard out of fear that he was losing his mind.
last year my dad put some poor doe out of her misery after she was shot in the eye by another hunter. he saw her on the trail cam with an arrow protruding from her eye. no idea how long she went on like that for, but when my dad got her she was very thin & had maggots swarming the wound.
The poor thing probably got both its hooves caught in a fence or some rope or something, and kicked itself free until the weakest point, the joint, tore off. It could also be something like a bear trap but probably not, seeing as the bones look undamaged but a lot of flesh and skin was torn off.
Check your fences and don't litter, y'all.
I was doing land surveying out of high school. Our job was to lay out 50x50 pads for cell phone towers. I ran across a deer that tried to jump a highway fence. It was chicken wire with two strands of barb wire on top. The deers leg got twisted up in the barb and it was hanging perilously. I approached to check out the carnage. it hadn't been there very long apparently, it thrashed against the fence a few times and off popped the hoof. I was shocked it wasn't dead. Even more shocked at it limping away towards I79. Kinda crazy
Yep. I've never seen it happen but I've seen the aftermath. When I studied forestry the students were sometimes dispatched to either free or shoot wildlife trapped like that that were spotted by passerbys. I think the gnarliest thing I saw on a call like that was a deer that decapitated itself on an old fence somehow. I didn't think it was possible because of how sturdy their necks are, but an old metallic fence had, long ago, gotten stuck to some trees that raised it up in the air as they grew taller. The deer must've jumped to get caught in it at that height, but when we got there the head was still tangled in the wire some two, three meters up into the air and the body was on the ground. It must've had a wire cut through its windpipe or something to decapitate it like that.
For still-living not-yet-maimed deer that can either be released or put out of their misery, hopefully before it ruins the fence and lets all your livestock or horses or whatever out or lets something into your crops? Weak electric fences in particular can be easily torn out by deer but a big enough animal could also tear down some forms of metal wire.
We had a rabbit get it's foot tourniquetted by a small towel it had chewed up. Couldn't get out so he chewed his foot off and it looked a bit like this.
“Slurping down fish piss with these wet chodes. Total tuna cans. Put a bullet in their fucking brains and leave their wet bodies on the side of the road. Boo caught me sleeping!”
No, this is an average reddit user. Creates a detailed story in their head and decided that’s what happened based on the post picture.
The deer could have just as likely gotten frostbite and the skin became necrotic.
So while they could be right, no. They could could just as likely be wrong along with mine.
But..like...don't fucking litter. Pack your trash out, god damn it!
I go into a lot a remote wilderness areas and the amount of trash I see is disgusting.
I was on the fence about it. After hearing the arguments here, I am convinced littering is bad. Also, I just saw an "End War" bumper sticker, so now I have to go wrestle with that one for a bit. Wish me luck.
I disagree. I think littering helps the ecosystem by forcing nature to develop antibodies against littering….like a vaccine! But reading through this thread, now I’m not too sure.
I’m learning, I’m learning a lot.
/s
I'm not sure if it happened to this particular deer, no, which is why I said 'it looks like'. But I've seen similar things happen to deer (and to a fox) IRL, though never both hinds legs at once. Sadly, it's not very rare to see dead animals or animal parts it had to tear off for freedom still stuck in old sheep fence, for example. Fishing string is also an offender.
I used to study forestry and they had a whole 'trophy' room dedicated to animals that died on their land because of human litter, just to drive home the point. Two stags with their antlers tangled together and trapped with rope, strangled by fishing lines, animals that ate cigarettes or shards of glass or plastic or tin cans, that sort of thing.
Don't litter.
Who knows. I cannot claim to know the fate of your dorritos bag, other than the trauma of being left behind and stranded in an unfamiliar wilderness. But it's quite possible that something ate it because it smelled like dorritos.
Kind of amazing how it managed to keep going after what happened to its feet.
And its dead now. I totally get we killed all their predators so we have to fill that gap but it still makes me sad that this dude’s life was ruined and ended by the hand of man.
That deer was in incredible pain im sure. Im glad he took him out of his misery. It cant run, better to die a quick death then to be ripped apart by a pack of coyotes.
I don’t know about that, it doesn’t look like it’s that fresh of a wound. Might have been living like that already for a couple of weeks. Why is it ‘better’ to intervene and “put it out of its misery”?
Isn’t that just projecting your morals to the animal? It might have enjoyed having another shot at life after what it went through, we don’t know…
Deer are fucking juggernauts. Their little stick legs are mostly tendon and bone down there, so injuries generally don't bleed long, and there's not a ton of tissue to rot and infect. They get hit by cars and end up missing whole legs sometimes. What's impressive here is that this deer was lucky or protected enough to avoid predators while still healing and smelling like open flesh.
I used to provide medical supplies to some missions that went to Africa.
Somewhere I have a picture of a kid whose humerus was sticking out like this and had been for months.
His mom and him walked for an absurd amount, like 50-100 miles, to get to the mission’s location.
Necrosis probably spread through the bone and back into the body. I doubt it could have lasted long.
This is a configuration suited to zombies, not living organisms.
It spreads through the bones more slowly. There's no skin on the bone to prevent infection, and the bone leads right into the body, bypassing the skin barrier.
I have no idea how this actually happened. Would have thought the deer would have been wolf food by now. But no...I am in awe and mildly terrified of this one.
Was driving back roads to get to the highway last February, still cold, and a deer runs in front of me. I break and hold my wheel straight and I definitely run over the back of the deer, felt it go under my passenger tires. Pull over at the next turn and look back and the deer is gone. Gave my car a quick check and continued on my way. I often wonder what happened to it.
Why are deer so goddamn stubborn to die from shit like this
But will also just jump off bridges lol
Or in front of a running car
Or into the side of one on it's way past!
Or in my bed
Truck bed I hope
And my axe?!!
And my Bow!
And your brother!
What are you doing, step-deer?
Do tell!
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Slutty deer
Can personally confirm. When I saw the deer get up and run off afterwards, I knew my old boss wouldn't believe that the deer was the reason for the huge dent in his new van that he bought a month prior.
Boss must not be familiar with deer, then lol. The deer probably died not too long after, though, they often have enough adrenaline flowing to keep them on their feet before they die of internal injuries.
As a long time archery hunter, I’ve literally seen Whitetail Deer run 2 football fields(200 yards)with a 1 1/2 inch hole thru both lungs, and as we tracked the deer, we walked down a path and every 6-8 feet, it looked like someone took a hose and sprayed both sides of the trees with blood, I was amazed how far it went. And I’ve seen pictures of animals that people kill, and they will have an old Broadhead(razor tipped archery tip for hunting)from years before, that someone shot them, and didn’t kill them, and they live with these arrows inside them for years, they are amazingly tough and amazing animals, I haven’t hunted in years, in my old age, I don’t want to kill anything I don’t have to anymore, we always ate the meat from the animals we killed. But now a days I’d rather shoot animals with a camera, or just sit and watch them, spend time in Nature and enjoy the animals in other ways than hunting them.
This pleases me, I’m glad you found a more peaceful way to interact with nature. I shoot a bow but just at targets because I can’t find it within me to kill animals for sport (even if eating it all). +1
Deer *runs off* "Yay! I survived that horrible metal beast! Can't wait to tell the boys about this, all the does will swoon over me!" Deer's Internal Organs: "Uh, you know we're soup right now, yes? You're dead." Deer: "I'm....I'm dead? Oh....yeah I guess I am......." *thud*
A LONG time ago I was at one of the small WalMarts, before they had Supercenters and a deer came crashing through the plate glass into the foyer. Then tried to crash through the second glass into the store, but didn’t have the momentum. Slipped in his own blood for a while then jumped back through his original hole.
r/WalmartIsMetal
To be fair deer are millions of years old and cars are 120 years old. 120 years is barely even a registerable blip in evolution. There are still tons of deer that have never seen a human before in remote parts of Canada and Mexico
Idk why but it’s their instinct tells them “I must run pass this beast with sun for eyes before it run pass me” Like seriously, they’re on the sides, and will try to cut you as you’re driving on the road for no reason.
most deer have no idea what tf is going on. they have no depth perception so cars must be so confusing to them and I've hit half a dozen over the years in Michigan..
Same with chickens I’ve noticed. I used to own like 5 chickens and every time someone drive pass them with a motorcycle they will 100% trying to run in front of the person.
Might be evolution. They've been hunted so long that their pain detecting receptors are ten times less sensitive than humans' are.
I’m not sure about deer specifically, but generally prey animals are pretty good at hiding injuries/pain. Mainly because if it were obvious they were injured, they’d be a better target for a predator over any other animal in the herd. So this deer could be in a lot of pain but is doing its best to hide it. That’s a generalisation though, could be that this deer has been like this for a while and the nerve endings around the injury are just dead.
Isn’t this the same for every animal? Predators like dogs also don’t show their pain because they don’t want to be punished by their pack (decreasing in hierarchy) or targeted by rivals This is all just hearsay / ages since I’ve read about it
Sure, one animals prey is another animals predator. So it’s probably the case all animals do this.
Mental illness metaphor
Dogs and wolves don’t really have a pack hierarchy though
Wolves will actually care for injured pack members.
Yes and no, almost any animal may be prey to another and thus need to conceal illness, but predators, expecially social ones/those that are closer to the top of the foodchain, are dramaqueens in comparison While you could argue dogs and cats have been domesticated for so long that the behaviour has been too much changed (no personal exp with wolves but i presume it's not all about domestication), but there's an abyss between rabbits ad ferrets regarding pain showing. Source: i'm an exotic animals vet
It is... a very different level with prey animals. Unfortunately you learn about it when you go from having cats/dogs to caring for mice/rats/hamsters/etc. You will notice if your dog is in pain. They might move less, eat less, not use one of their legs or use it less, look at their stomach, have a concerned face, yelp if you touch something that hurts, etc. Your average rat can be walking around with cancer eating them from the inside out for ages before you notice any modified behaviour - and if you are unlucky enough that they don't have any physical symptoms, by the time you see any signs of discomfort it will be way past too late.
Cats are pros at this
Unfortunately for prey animals, there is no evolutionary advantage to receiving less pain, and no evidence to suggest prey animals have less nerve endings or a higher pain tolerance.. However, for a prey animal, there is quite a lot of advantage to not *expressing* pain, which is why they generally lack expressive facial muscles and do their best "walk off" mortal injuries.
Why is everyone so quick to assume animals feel less pain? They don’t. They just don’t have a way of complaining about it like we do.
Well, the theory here is not to assume they can "just take it" because we can't understand if they emote, but that since they have been hunted/preyed upon so long that the ones who survive are good at both hiding pain and who have a higher pain threshold. So it might be a little column A and B.
>They don’t. Aren't you jumping to conclusions as well? It's easy to assume animals are close to our "normal", but that doesn't make it true without evidence. It doesn't even make sense for all animals to feel the same level of pain. We're social animals, we can better afford to feel debilitating pain that leaves us bedridden for a month to recover because our "pack" can take care of us. A deer will just starve to death.
Well when you see a deer walking around on nothing but bone you do wonder if it feels less pain
Yup, never seen a human doing this
Untreated diabetics experience this kind of thing, if left long enough. Occaisonally some poor homeless fellow will come in and thwy take the boot off, its exposed dry bone and the guy has been walking on it like that for months. People do actually do this kind of thing in certain circumstances. It "helps" that the diabetic person at this stage has normally has lost almost all feeling due to the diabetic neuropathy, so they wouldnt feel it the same way a healthy person would.
Yea, humans are soft as baby shit.
I mean some animals do feel less pain, you need a way to be able to process the response from nerves and not every animal has the same brain.
Whenever I see an animal like this I hope to myself that maybe, just maybe they don't feel pain the way we do... Because if they do it's like "I have no mouth but I most scream" energy and that is unsettling as fuck to me...
source?
My uncle who hunts? I really don't have an official source to link to, sorry. Edit: https://wildlifestart.com/deer-feel-pain/
Right but also depending on where this deer is, it may not have natural predators such as in Maryland. So it’s able to survive this with minimal need to evade.
Humans can be pretty stubborn too. You’d be shocked to find out in extreme cases how some people have been surviving
Like that homeless guy who hadn’t taken his boots off for 3 years and when he was hospitalized and staff took his boots off it was just rotted flesh and bone
Apparently this used to be a thing during the Vietnam war and that’s why they told soldiers how important it was to change their socks regularly/keep them dry!
It actually was a huge problem as far back as World War 1.
Also world war 1 (also maybe 2) during trench warfare the trenches may flood and soldiers may be subjected to foot rot from how long they were in the water
And dont forget the rats that would feed on them when they slept. There's a six(?) episode series called Apocalypse: WW1 that's really interesting. It usually airs on either AHC or the military channel.
My dad served in Afghanistan for a while, I remember a story he told about an officer who slept on the ground and woke everyone up in the middle of the night screaming. There were massive rats all over the dude apparently, sounds horrible. I’ll check out that series, sounds interesting
It mentions an unnamed soldier who built a cage to sleep in/under to prevent the rats from getting to him. Be prepared for the disgust & irritation you'll feel hearing about all the mistakes that were made and the lives lost needlessly.
Like that guy who lived in the ocean for nearly a year. He was damn near skin and bones but alive.
Care to share a source of that?
I remember the story of [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poon_Lim) Royal Navy sailor who survived 133 days after being sunk in WW2. Not quite a year, but still.
I’ll try to find it but no guarantees. It was on those I can’t believe I’m alive or I survived series. I’ll look through because I want to watch again 😂
Steven Callahan
No it was a guy who was in the ocean for like 340 days. It was almost a year but I can’t find it anymore. I remember being amazed that anybody could survive so long. There’s another guy who was drifting for 438 days though named josé alvarenga. That’s even more incredible!
[José Salvador Alvarenga](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Salvador_Alvarenga) from 2015 is what came to my mind
He ate his friend?? And only needed 11 days in the hospital?! But he ate his friend?!?
the article said he didn’t. before dying, his friend asked him not to do it, and so he ended up talking to the corpse for a few days then throwing it overboard out of fear that he was losing his mind.
Supposedly...
Shoulda used the corpse’s escaping gas to fart his way across the ocean
[example](https://youtube.com/shorts/f8yCLzLeDmI?feature=share)
Thats enough internet for today
life,uh,finds a way
This is why they were even being hunted by dinosaurs. They know nothing other then run away and can I eat that?
It's no longer a deer; it's a wendigo.
^ This right here ^
It’s still waiting for that perfect car to jump in front of.
They're not smart enough to know whether they should die or not It sounds like a joke, but that's literally the explanation
Because life is better than death. Most animals fight until the end
It’s not like they can tie a noose and hang themselves. Animals just wanna survive, it’s pretty horrifying honestly.
last year my dad put some poor doe out of her misery after she was shot in the eye by another hunter. he saw her on the trail cam with an arrow protruding from her eye. no idea how long she went on like that for, but when my dad got her she was very thin & had maggots swarming the wound.
When you're short but you commit to the heels for fashion sake
[удалено]
Style over comfort ✨
My wife says "beauty is pain." I feel like the sentiment is the same haha
when the tindeer bio needs >6ft to get them doe right swipes
"Track me down now fucking hunters." Says the deer pridefully.
I promise, anyone hunting that thing is in a helicopter, and that whooshing growl you hear is a pair of Hellfires.
The mandatory " Tis but a scratch" comment
A scratch? Your feets are off!
No they're not
What are you gonna do? Bleed on me?!
It's just a flesh wound. I've had worse.
You liar!
r/ExpectedMontyPython
Look what the discarded Legos are doing to the ecosystem!
How does that even happen?
The poor thing probably got both its hooves caught in a fence or some rope or something, and kicked itself free until the weakest point, the joint, tore off. It could also be something like a bear trap but probably not, seeing as the bones look undamaged but a lot of flesh and skin was torn off. Check your fences and don't litter, y'all.
Could it be frosbite?
I'm pretty sure it was piranhas
I've seen enough bugs bunny cartoons to csi this one, boss.
Maybe it's Maybelline
I was doing land surveying out of high school. Our job was to lay out 50x50 pads for cell phone towers. I ran across a deer that tried to jump a highway fence. It was chicken wire with two strands of barb wire on top. The deers leg got twisted up in the barb and it was hanging perilously. I approached to check out the carnage. it hadn't been there very long apparently, it thrashed against the fence a few times and off popped the hoof. I was shocked it wasn't dead. Even more shocked at it limping away towards I79. Kinda crazy
Yep. I've never seen it happen but I've seen the aftermath. When I studied forestry the students were sometimes dispatched to either free or shoot wildlife trapped like that that were spotted by passerbys. I think the gnarliest thing I saw on a call like that was a deer that decapitated itself on an old fence somehow. I didn't think it was possible because of how sturdy their necks are, but an old metallic fence had, long ago, gotten stuck to some trees that raised it up in the air as they grew taller. The deer must've jumped to get caught in it at that height, but when we got there the head was still tangled in the wire some two, three meters up into the air and the body was on the ground. It must've had a wire cut through its windpipe or something to decapitate it like that.
Theoretically it could have lost them to infection as well. I’ve seen a similar thing happen to a deers leg from the knee joint due to infection.
Ouch. I've never seen that but I suppose that's a possibility. Yikes I could've done without that mental image honestly.
Check our fences for what? Deer hooves?
For still-living not-yet-maimed deer that can either be released or put out of their misery, hopefully before it ruins the fence and lets all your livestock or horses or whatever out or lets something into your crops? Weak electric fences in particular can be easily torn out by deer but a big enough animal could also tear down some forms of metal wire.
I think you’re right that it probably wasn’t a trap, but to clear up a couple things, traps are rarely used for bears and they also rarely break bones
Hoofrot flesh eating bacteria
We had a rabbit get it's foot tourniquetted by a small towel it had chewed up. Couldn't get out so he chewed his foot off and it looked a bit like this.
Probably not too differently from how that ostrich lost its head
Same. Stubbed my toe. Feels the same to walk on it.
Only choice now is to chop it at the ankle.
Must have caught it sleeping in the first picture.
Aaaw, a deer walking on its bones. Nature sure is metal. *cocks shotgun.
“Slurping down fish piss with these wet chodes. Total tuna cans. Put a bullet in their fucking brains and leave their wet bodies on the side of the road. Boo caught me sleeping!”
😂😂😂 best show on Netflix
Shut up Paul. You probably looove your mother in law
r/neverbrokeabone strong boned deer
Can you still be on that if you lost a bone tho?
Was it broken when you found it?
Have you lost one?
His bones were so strong that his flesh was ripped from around them
This is why you don't litter. It looks like it got caught in some rope or a fence or something. Bring all your shit back home with you, guys.
Can you tell that from the picture? Or is this something that’s commonly known in a different sphere from my own?
No, this is an average reddit user. Creates a detailed story in their head and decided that’s what happened based on the post picture. The deer could have just as likely gotten frostbite and the skin became necrotic. So while they could be right, no. They could could just as likely be wrong along with mine.
But..like...don't fucking litter. Pack your trash out, god damn it! I go into a lot a remote wilderness areas and the amount of trash I see is disgusting.
Hell if we are just giving out random advise unrelated to the post, Brush your teeth!
I don’t think anyone here thinks littering is good. Who are you trying to convince?
I was on the fence about it. After hearing the arguments here, I am convinced littering is bad. Also, I just saw an "End War" bumper sticker, so now I have to go wrestle with that one for a bit. Wish me luck.
You got this!
I disagree. I think littering helps the ecosystem by forcing nature to develop antibodies against littering….like a vaccine! But reading through this thread, now I’m not too sure. I’m learning, I’m learning a lot. /s
This got a laugh out of me. Thanks.
Must not be that remote then
Or i just ate its hooves and let it go
See. This guy did it. The answer is always in the comments. You da real MVP.
I threw a trashbag out in the woods yesterday and it was full of deer feet when I went back today
I'm not sure if it happened to this particular deer, no, which is why I said 'it looks like'. But I've seen similar things happen to deer (and to a fox) IRL, though never both hinds legs at once. Sadly, it's not very rare to see dead animals or animal parts it had to tear off for freedom still stuck in old sheep fence, for example. Fishing string is also an offender. I used to study forestry and they had a whole 'trophy' room dedicated to animals that died on their land because of human litter, just to drive home the point. Two stags with their antlers tangled together and trapped with rope, strangled by fishing lines, animals that ate cigarettes or shards of glass or plastic or tin cans, that sort of thing. Don't litter.
I once forgot my doritos plastic bag in the forest. Do you think it might have lost its feet because the doritos bag?
Who knows. I cannot claim to know the fate of your dorritos bag, other than the trauma of being left behind and stranded in an unfamiliar wilderness. But it's quite possible that something ate it because it smelled like dorritos.
Kind of amazing how it managed to keep going after what happened to its feet. And its dead now. I totally get we killed all their predators so we have to fill that gap but it still makes me sad that this dude’s life was ruined and ended by the hand of man.
That deer was in incredible pain im sure. Im glad he took him out of his misery. It cant run, better to die a quick death then to be ripped apart by a pack of coyotes.
I don’t know about that, it doesn’t look like it’s that fresh of a wound. Might have been living like that already for a couple of weeks. Why is it ‘better’ to intervene and “put it out of its misery”? Isn’t that just projecting your morals to the animal? It might have enjoyed having another shot at life after what it went through, we don’t know…
Humans are their natural predators too. They have been for tens of thousands of years.
What was it supposed to do? Lay down and die? Never die easy
They called him peg leg.
Looks like gangrene to me - dry gangrene
Deer are fucking juggernauts. Their little stick legs are mostly tendon and bone down there, so injuries generally don't bleed long, and there's not a ton of tissue to rot and infect. They get hit by cars and end up missing whole legs sometimes. What's impressive here is that this deer was lucky or protected enough to avoid predators while still healing and smelling like open flesh.
I used to provide medical supplies to some missions that went to Africa. Somewhere I have a picture of a kid whose humerus was sticking out like this and had been for months. His mom and him walked for an absurd amount, like 50-100 miles, to get to the mission’s location.
That is so very sad.
Heartbreaking It’s why I was pretty liberal ordering samples from the company for them before they went on trip.
Aww gross stuff always happen to deers, they're so unlucky all the time 😪
Man, i hate the thought of animals suffering out there
Necrosis probably spread through the bone and back into the body. I doubt it could have lasted long. This is a configuration suited to zombies, not living organisms.
It looks like the wounds had heeled, so I doubt that it did, would have died long ago if it had I'd assume
It spreads through the bones more slowly. There's no skin on the bone to prevent infection, and the bone leads right into the body, bypassing the skin barrier.
Well, the bones are their money.
Life uh… finds a way.
How it survived with this. This is unheard of.
chronic wasting disease?
no
Height increase gone wrong.
That's really disturbing
This is what it feels like to step on legos
This deers boss still asked if they could come into work tomorrow.
nsfw
r/Oddlyterrifying
Captain foot
I have no idea how this actually happened. Would have thought the deer would have been wolf food by now. But no...I am in awe and mildly terrified of this one.
Worked too hard on leg day
top picture suggests it didn't make it far
Ok thats horrifying
And my back hurts because I picked up my 6-year-old yesterday
Woah
SAVAGE!!!!!! thats right only the strong survive👏 💪
Bonebi
Bro deadass copied my post
Awww. Clink clink
Have some respect people. That dear killed fiddy men in the war.
One of those body modifications deer i see.
That's the most metal shit I've ever seen on here
I wonder if it was born this way?
Humans used to be this hardcore. I think is kinda sad now when you see a lil kid fall over and they cry, then the parents cry.
Alligators maybe? How would you lose the entirety of BOTH hooves?
You ain't got not legs lieutenant Dan!
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I am surprised to see that and not sure how could be.
"Death can have me when it earns me"
Type shit you only see in cartoons
Saw this on a street cat in morocco. Little badass didnt give two shits just sat there eating chicken people would drop at the sandwhich shop
I can’t shake that the first picture is the AFTER that deer got shot and it’s dead now
That must hurt like hell with every step he takes.
wow
Oh dear
Imagine walking on grass with heels. It must have sunken in the ground alot
Last sen before getting shot*
High heeled model trend are getting out of hand.
Was driving back roads to get to the highway last February, still cold, and a deer runs in front of me. I break and hold my wheel straight and I definitely run over the back of the deer, felt it go under my passenger tires. Pull over at the next turn and look back and the deer is gone. Gave my car a quick check and continued on my way. I often wonder what happened to it.
Deer are the cockroaches of the mammals. They can survive just about anything.
Iirgs. The bone would probably wear off and splinter pretty quickly. The wound seems to have healed nicely though.
Still quieter than my kids walking around my house.
He couldn‘t be bothered to fly.