Video: Fawn “Reacts” to Kitten’s “Vicious Predatory Attack”
OutdoorHub Reporters 12.08.15
Deer fawns have a strange approach when it comes to fending off predators—generally, they don’t really do anything. They just play dead and hope that if they stay still long enough, whatever’s trying to eat it will simply move on. Combined with their natural lack of scent, this strategy actually works well enough to the point where does will leave their young alone for the first few weeks of their life. Actually being around the fawn will endanger both of them more than just it laying in the brush alone.
However, if a predator already found the fawn, then most of the time it just ends up being lunch. To the fawn’s credit, it does play dead all the way to the very end. This encounter between a fawn and kitten demonstrates that.
We may have slightly exaggerated the title, but it is likely that the fawn would not have reacted much different to a bobcat or even a mountain lion. In this case the ending is a bit happier.
