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RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 09:08 PM Aug 2015

Deer attacks Cecil the lion killer dentist Walter Palmer

I don't think it's him, but I like the drift! Wildlife strikes back!

A deer recently recognized and attacked dentist Walter Palmer, the murderer of Cecil the beloved lion. Karma is a bi*ch, eh?


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2naSalit

(86,646 posts)
1. Actually
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 09:23 PM
Aug 2015

I thought it looked more like wangotangoboy, who also deserves to have his weenie-waving ass kicked by wildlife. Either will do for me.

W T F

(1,147 posts)
4. I would enjoy watching this even more if I thought this was Ted "the draft dogging pedophile" Nugent
Sun Aug 2, 2015, 09:46 PM
Aug 2015

Getting his ass kicked,

 

happyslug

(14,779 posts)
8. I thought the "Deer" was to large, it appears to be an American Elk or Wapiti.
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 12:27 AM
Aug 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/sports/13elk.html?_r=0

The Elk was long considered the same species as the European Red Deer, but recent DNA studies have indicated they are at least two separate sub species, if not two different species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk

When I first watched the video, I did not think it was a North American Deer, it is to large:

White Tail deer, bucks, tend to be under 150 pounds, through 400 plus bucks have been reported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer#Size_and_weight

Mule deer are a little bit heaver, about 200 pounds on average:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_deer


European Red Deer can be 350 pound pus, twice the size as White Tails and Mule Tails, but are NOT native to the US or Eastern Asia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_deer

Now the White tail can have some red hair in its fur in the spring, but it is gone by the fall and hunting season. This deer clearly has some red fur. It does NOT left up its tail as White Tails tend to do when endangers (The white tail it is a warning to other deer danger is near).

Change has come

(2,372 posts)
9. There is an image of an elk at the very beginning of the video
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 12:37 AM
Aug 2015

But it's not an elk doing the ass kicking. An elk would be using it's antlers which are absolutely huge! (6-7 feet long or more and almost as wide). Elk are larger than horses.

Not sure what type of deer this is but it may be a blacktail which is a subspecies of mule deer. The antlers look mule deer-ish to me.

 

happyslug

(14,779 posts)
12. My first suspicion was European Red Deer
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 10:17 AM
Aug 2015

Thus my cite to European Red Deer. For decades they were considered the same as American Elk, but recent DNA shows a clear differentiation. Today the issue are they two species or sub-species?

Mule Tail and White Tail deer can interbreed and produce healthy off spring, but the off spring do NOT to the sudden sprints of the white tail ancestors, nor the "slotting" of Mule tails, but a combination of the two, that defeats each method of avoiding predators and thus became easy victims to wolves coyotes, mountain lions and bears.

I bring the Mule Tail - White Tail mix to show that just because American Elk is close to European Red Deer, they may act differently, My first opinion was European Red Deer not American Elk, but that was in part determined by the original posters use of the term "Deer" and that the film is in French. Red Deer exists in the US, but is considered "cattle" not a game animal by Game Commissions, thus regulated by State and Federal Agricultural Departments NOT Game Commissions and this includes Canned Hunts.

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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
13. That's what happens when you spill the estrus deer attractant on yourself
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 11:30 AM
Aug 2015

and the buck shows up expecting nookie but finding an dude wearing camo instead . . .

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
14. The front edges of a deer's hoofs are razor sharp,
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 07:45 PM
Aug 2015

...and they have a much stronger punch than expected.

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