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Yup this is sad AF. Wild animals should be afraid of humans.
As a Floridian the most frustrating thing ever is people feeding gators in residential areas.
They're not your buddies, they're friggen dinosaurs that have no concept of friendship.
As an Arkansan in NWA, gators are terrifying and I'd never get in the water there.
And then there are the tourists who visit the Brazos Bend State Park outside Houston and get mad because hiking trails are closed. "Just move the alligators off the path! We want to walk there!" they say.
"Um, ma'am, this is their home. They can sleep where they want."
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The way a gator growl vibrates through your chest is something that can only be appreciated when it's experienced in person. I would not want to be within reaching distance of a real life dinosaur.
Dog was faster that time, but I bet it had bad dreams for a while.
LOL!
Yes but to be fair, Houstonians behave like this no matter where they go. Gators or no gators.
NYC guy here. There's Gators in Houston?...TIL
Houston is a port city surrounded by marshland, prime gator habitat.
houston person…. yes many gators depending on where you go. any body of water works
Everyone always says that but we have one person a year die from a gator attack, lol. They're so skittish if people just don't feed and desensitize them.
I watch a guy on tiktok that comes across them while swimming down there. They just chill or swim away but still terrifying lol.
One day that dudes gonna stop posting tik toks and everyones gonna know why 😂😂
That Grizzly Man spent like 13 summers chilling with the bears. Yes, they killed him and his SO.
if you overstay
Yeah bottom line when the food starts to get scarce for the bears you better make yourself scarce from that area asap.
Like that Russian guy that liked to free climb all those towers, doing stupid shit like jumping from ledge to ledge and doing pullups over a drop.
Because that dude tends to find juveniles.
He won't have fun finding some of the bigger boys out there.
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That's a little scary, there's so many big boys even in the residential areas. I still wakeboarded there a few times. And went airboating out in the back waters a lot.
We also kept our horses on a 40 acre peninsula on the st John's for a while when I was little. I remember being scared one of the big gators would get them, but nothing ever happened.
That’s 1 more person a year than in the non-gator infested waters I swim.
You are much more likely to die from a florida man than a florida gator. Gators are the laziest fucks in existence and really do not want to fuck with you if you do not fuck with them.
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YOU WERE IN NWA?!? That’s pretty badass… I love your stuff.
As a Floridian, I am constantly amazed that there are 5-6 apex predators living outside my house, and they have 0 interest in being messed with. I get to watch them from my office, but interacting with them in any way is insane.
I guess a gator is a little more intimidating than a deer but get too close, make a wrong move, and these guys will stomp the shit out you and the bucks will gore you with their antlers.
I was at a state park in Appalachian Tennessee one time and some little kid on the restaurant deck said "can I go pet the funny brown pig" and like four park rangers and half the guests were on their feet and were like "NO, DEFINITELY NOT"
Was it a boar or something?
Sounds like a wild boar.
This kid needs to read the Odyssey.
Recently a group of wild boar took over a town in Southern Ontario. They kept outsmarting animal control. I think it took them a few weeks to finally get them. I didn't even know we had wild boar in Canada.
Make a wrong move and they all scatter like roaches. I live in the northeast and im surrounded by these dummies. The only way a deer will get close enough to you to hurt you is if you ram it with a honda, or you feed the crap out of them like this, and they'll still scatter, not charge, if you move too quick. Bucks are agressive, mothers will stamp their feet and snort a few times but if you advance they're OUT. They'll take on a small dog, or maybe a kid if you get too close to the babies, But an adult? Not in a million years. unless you cornered it, in which case you're a dick to animals and thats pretty lame. They're pretty dumb but they know they suck at fighting and we suck at running. Unfortunately they're pretty bad at not getting disoriented by headlights, and THAT, is how a deer will most likely fuck you up, when you and she are united on a steering column shishkebab.
Hey buddy, you try telling Betty White not to feed them
Lake Placid. Betty White can save any movie.
Crocodilians are actually entirely separate from dinosaurs, with both of them being different types of archosaurs, just like birds!
That doesn't change anything in your comment, I just learned this like yesterday and need to get it out there.
I think the term they want is "living fossil". Species that have virtually been the same for millions of years. Horseshoe crabs, nautilus, giant isopods, coelacanthe, turtles, sharks and crocodilians are pretty much the same as fossil records show.
"Living fossil" is losing favor in biological circles because it assumes that phenotypes observable in fossils are the only way evolution happens.
TIL
YAY SOMEBODY WHO ALSO KNOWS AND IS SOCIALLY BRAVE ENOUGH TO COMMENT THISSSSSSSSSSS
It's true:
Alligators invented: ~37 million years ago
Friendship invented: ~350 years ago
Alligators did not get the memo.
Some places like Banff that are protected wild life reserves but also have loads of people end up like this, except they are 1200 lb elk and will mess your shit up.
So sad that people see this as cute. Please don't feed wild animals
Edit: someone who lives near me was gored by a deer last year going for a walk in their neighborhood because the deer was looking to get fed.
I have a neighbor who I have personally seen hand feeding deer and foxes like a fucking disney princess. You're not cute, you're hurting the animals!
I volunteered at a wildlife refuge as a kid. When rehabbing deer, they were put in huge pens with super high walls and limited human contact. Being able to release them to the wild was top priority.
It is and I wholeheartedly agree with you...and yet I do see these cute animals and want to pet them. I 'll go cuddle my (indoor) cats instead :)
This reminds me i need to watch the animated show "don't feed the humans".
They’re cute until you hit one on the interstate going 80 mph. All I see now are forest rats.
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Right? Fucking disease ridden pests. Not only that, they wonder around on the trails like they own the place, littering and throwing their cigarette butts everywhere..
Oh, I see, we're not talking about the deer anymore.
Edit: someone who lives near me was gored by a deer last year going for a walk in their neighborhood because the deer was looking to get fed.
O shit.
I have a neighbor who I have personally seen hand feeding deer and foxes like a fucking disney princess.
Wonderful time to set off some firecrackers
Just spit out my drink picturing that
I mean it isn't just that. They need to spend their time learning to forage under desperate circumstances in winter. Their population should stabilize around natural feeding behaviors and predation. These deer have learned to spend too much of their valuable time standing around waiting for this idiot.
Extremely well written. Genetics of a herd are built this way too. The strong/smart survive the winters and pass the genes on. This shit right here could lead to an injured/sickly deer otherwise surviving because it can park it's ass on/near human habitation. In reality those deer get picked off by predation or die of starvation naturally.
I am afraid of humans. I know how they think.
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This is what happens when you feed wild animals. They won’t continue to look for food and instead prioritize coming to you. Don’t feed wild animals.
Here to repeat that feeding wild animals is bad.
Please spay and neuter you deer and bears.
my cat is literally on the table getting spayed right now. Just thought I would be a deer share bear.
Wow, well to be clear, you can pay a vet to do it for you instead. A dollar saved is a dollar earned I guess.
DIY neutering or spaying kits are the hot Christmas item. Second on the list are feeding troughs for your yard.
You should see the new Elmo this year
Spingus you quit doing that on the dining room table right now!
Only a few bucks.
Deer and bears, Deer and bears, Don’t feed them todayyyyy! If you do, They’ll return to you, And they’ll never go awayyyy! Hey!
I see Xmas music has successfully invaded my brain…
Deer are also infested with ticks
Well these ones don't look nervous at all. You can see one with a nervous tick in the back, but the rest seem pretty calm. Maybe some of these have Tourette instead.
I went to feed a deer and the stupid thing started screaming obscenities at me. Deerouettes is no joke.
I think deerouettes are when they spin in a circle on one hoof.
Just reading that made an animated cartoon deer in a tutu appear in my imagination.
I was field dressing a deer the other day and nearly hurled when I saw about a half dozen ticks scurrying from the fur into the open stomach cavity. This was the second week in fucking December. Those ticks had no business scurrying anywhere. Fuck global warming, fuck this la nina cycle, and fuck a bunch of ticks.
Yeah I started feeding squirrels because my kids love watching them up close and now these tree rats literally knock at my door in the morning.
Pro tip, bird feeders are basically squirrel feeders.
Probably why so many deer in the East are infected with COVID. And definitely why so many people have Lyme Disease.
Concentrating white tails to a food source is asking for a CWD outbreak as well
Isn’t this also how prions are spread?
CWD = chronic wasting disease = "prion disease that affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer and moose" - CDC
Didn’t know that, thanks!
Yes
Huh. I thought they were mules. Been too long since I had to study one of the charts for seasonal hunting.
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Yeah, looking closer I agree. I feel like its the Whitetails that seem to live in people's backyards, but I'm in the East and biased.
It was the ear to muzzle ratio or something that made me wonder. I'd certainly have had to wait for one of them to turn around before I committed to anything.
...and yes, I know how that sounds.
It's very possible they are mulies. Ive only ever hunted whitetail so I immediately assumed a group of does.
Yep this why baiting is being made illegal in places.
I think the Lyme disease thing is more due to people moving into the habitat of animals that carry ticks. Ticks get around even if the deer are afraid of people.
Where did you get that from? that deer in the east are infected with covid? i'd like to read it for myself.
Hahaha “deer is spreading among white tailed deer” technically i meannn
Can't believe I didn't catch that one.
Rudolf is sick this year.
Even animals in zoos are getting COVID and getting vaccinated because of it.
Yeah I saw this and thought "they probably have a tick problem"
'Dont feed wild animals...'
you humans are trying to be Santa's elves ?!
please, don't give us food - we must find it ourselves!
for we are the deer, in the wild on our own
we Must learn to hunt, or 'dependent' we've grown
we sometimes come by, n we might stop n stare,
no need to give 'handouts', just admire us there
don't need no 'snoot booping' - we'll be on our way,
We got Business to Do, friends -
(...like Pull Santa's Sleigh!)
❤️
My name is paper_snow and I approve this schnoodle 🦌👍
So bad for the animals
as an avid animal lover please stop feeding wild animals.
There are 5 deer that I see almost daily because they cross my normal running path. I've never gotten with 10 feet of them let alone herding around me. Wild animals don't naturally like people.
It’s all I see on this sub anymore. Dumb shit fueled by fake internet points.
There was one on r/Deer getting upvoted for a video of themselves feeding PB&J sandwiches to a family of deer. It made me so mad that I unsubbed.
Not only were they feeding the wildlife, but they were feeding them food with very poor nutritional value that they were never meant to be eating, and from the video you could see it was a residential area where encouraging them to return means higher chance of them being hit by cars (bad for the deer AND the drivers).
And then they had the nerve to argue with people in the comments who were explaining why this was bad!
It's easier than hunting. Now all this person has to do is drag one into the kitchen. Free meat for the winter.
I feed my local wildlife, but it's mostly a bird feeder, plus some food in the grass for the squirrels who would otherwise jump onto my bird feeder. I also feed some crows. I had to stop filling my bird feeder to the top after a deer started emptying it, but I do keep the bottom inch or so full for the birds.
My apartment building is new, and it was woods just 5-6 years ago. The way I look at it, it's my way of giving back to the critters that lost their homes. I keep it clean, I did my research to make sure I only put out healthy stuff, I don't put out so much food that they don't look elsewhere, and it's a safe corner of the yard. I basically feed them breakfast, and they're on their own for the rest of the day.
Easy venison, feels like cheating, hell probably is.
Not in 'Merica. Seriously though. Some states allow feed stations.
Stop feeding wild animals!!!
YEP! You should not be able to touch or catch a healthy wild animal in general, unless it’s a baby rabbit because some of them don’t get the whole “run away” memo. Also fledgling birds, some species just live on the ground for awhile. Also baby deer kinda just sit there…
Ok so baby animals don’t quite have self preservation skills yet, contact your local wildlife rehabilitation center before getting near them. Many times they don’t need help; depending on the species the parents may just come by a few times a day, which leads to people thinking they’re abandoned when they’re not. Ahem, rabbits. Basically stop kidnapping rabbits, thanks.
Baby birds can be safely returned to their nest if you see it, or you can make another nest option. Again, contact a local wildlife rehabilitation center for information on if they should be brought in or not. Do not feed them before they get to the rehabilitation center.
Anyhow, all healthy adult animas should be running the heck away. It’s dangerous for them and the people around you if they’re friendly; or if they’re not quite friendly but associate humans with food. No food. Also don’t teach your neighborhood crows to speak, it’s dangerous for them.
Rabies vector species needs help? Wait for a licensed wildlife rehabber to arrive, they’re already rabies vaccinated and you likely aren’t. The animal bites you? Well depending on local laws, they may have to be euthanized anyway now because you’re not trained in handling wildlife, much less stressed or injured wildlife, and a bite happened. Yay.
unless it’s a baby rabbit because some of them don’t get the whole “run away” memo.
Can confirm. When my oldest was about 6-7, they were playing outside in the courtyard right in front of our apartment. Suddenly they come inside beaming and holding a baby bunny. Obviously, we made them put the poor little thing right back where they'd gotten it from. To be fair, we were mildly impressed, but it also lead to a long conversation about wildlife and what is and isn't appropriate.
It’s crazy how tiny they are when they’re all weaned and ready to go! Good job returning the bunny to where they found it! Our local rehabilitation center basically just lets them go in the park across the street from it, so they just suddenly get moved for being illegally smol.
A few years ago in our yard we saw the most neurotic and safe rabbit mom raise the most chill and lazy baby. Spent most of their day just sunbathing while munching, as their mom freaked out about safety. So, apparently in some cases… A fearful parent doesn’t always help. The lazy bun is still alive to this day though, it worked out for them.
Yeah i let my dog out one day and when shes ready to go inside she walks up on the porch and i see something in her mouth. Shes got a tiny little baby bunny in her mouth holding it ever so gently just showing it off to me like she adopted a new kid or something. Luckily i knew where the nest was so i just put it right back there. I hope it was ok and didnt have a heart attack from being scared or something.
How do you “teach a neighborhood crow to speak”?
They literally learned just from people greeting in the morning at the rehabilitation center, I don’t doubt that they’d be able to learn quickly once befriended by someone. At the rehabilitation center they’d have to be a educational bird instead of being released back into the wild if they learned to speak due to the risk of a crow that was comfortable with humans saying “Hi!” and getting harassed or killed. So, safer for the bird to not talk due to the prejudice against them. Same reason you don’t let back cats outside during October or around Halloween, not everyone is nice, and their safety is most important.
So, safer for the bird to not talk due to the prejudice against them.
SCRAAW THE MUDMAN OPPRESSES US INTO SILENCE!
Literally 🤣
Interesting, thanks. All the crows in my neighborhood just caw angrily at me if I get anywhere close. Not sure how someone would manage to train them haha
RICK AND 2 CROWS!
Young squirrels also don't get the whole humans are dangerous concept yet. One walked right up to me and was about to try to climb up my pants but I had to scare it away to help it learn how to survive(a conservation agency website said that was the best approach). I felt like a monster. Don't touch or feed wild animals, no matter how cute!
Feeding the deer can actually mess with their natural microbiome, leads to a higher spread of disease such as Chronic Waste Disease by having them congregate so close together not to mention they can actually end up starving and dehydrating because they have now altered their natural migration to their winter bedding/feeding areas. The deer eat certain foods during certain seasons. You are altering what is natural for them and are therefore not helping them at all.
My first thought when i saw it was, "that's how CWD spreads".
Not only that but when food is plenty they breed more. So if the artificial feeding stops then the food supply can no longer support the population.
Pretty, yeah, but this is a bad sign. They shouldn't be this comfortable around humans. I hope they're not being fed.
Well, why else would they be there and so at ease at touching distance of a human... :-/
Very cute but concerning indeed. People should really know better.
Someone didnt just "feed" them. Someone fed them Cheetohs. Theyll literally never leave now
Seriously, my town has a ton of deer, and they're pretty lazy about running away from people, but if you start walking straight at them or get within 10-20ft they bolt.
Also a lot of the deer in the video are this year's babies, which in my experience and much more skittish than adults. The babies in my area still won't let you get within 50ft of them before they take off. My guess is that this person has been actively feeding the cute babies, which is even worse because they need to be learning how to survive the winter.
I know this is deer, but I live in town with a ton of elk. Like, there's normally no traffic at all in my town, but whenever I'm at a standstill I know it's because of elk crossing. Because there are so many, they are pretty comfortable around people. I've had big groups of elk in my front yard grazing while I watch them from a very short distance away. But, they don't come up to my porch clearly expecting food. These people have definitely been feeding them, and it shows. Feel free to watch, take pictures, there's no need to be scared, but don't feed for god's sake. Keep wild animals wild, it's in their best interest.
elk are a lot less skittish than deer, white tails are nervous wrecks and should be avoiding the deck just from the smell of people. These guys are 100% being fed
I’m not so sure these are whitetail deer, but deer are deer so the point stands.
They look more like Mule Deer to me
They are indeed mule deer.
Well in the case of bull elk during mating season, there is probably a good reason to be scared.
Elk are less skittish because they're HUGE. they could get you out of their road with one swift kick.
The deer here in town have no fear of humans at all. They bed down under the trees in yards. They live in town and are used to people and traffic.
At least now I understand why wild deer are getting covid.
OP is wondering why their social distancing during the holidays didnt work now that they have like 4 different strains of covid, two that they hadn't even heard of before, and now they're considered patient zero.
Don't feed wildlife.
Looks like someone feed the deer. DON’T FEED THE DEER!
Can we feed the cats?
The cat can have a little salami.
As a treat
If you want to adopt them and make them yours, sure.
Stop feeding them. They have no interest in humans, only the food that they are providing.
They have no interest in humans, only the food that they are providing.
Why are we suddenly talking about cats?
This deserves way more upvotes than my comment :D
But how will OP farm karma? Surely it’s not bad thing for deer to lose fear of humans ?
Yeah, they've definitely been feeding them.
I'm not sure which I hate more, that, or the loud as f music laid on top.
Omg, yes! You can barely hear her voice reacting over the Christmas music
Don't feed wild animals unless you're prepared for eventual heartbreak. Either theirs or yours first.
I know people love to see deer (unless you're from the country) but all I think when I see these things are ticks.
Followed by my poor garden
Yep. I’m just thinking of how much I feed them without being a willing participant. The deer, opossums and raccoons make a buffet from my garden more often than not. 😭
I just see Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever with hair and legs.
I'm aware deer carry the ticks that carry the disease. Deer equates to ticks in my mind. Blech!
Another moron who can't stop themselves from feeding the wildlife
Oh deer
Ive made quite a mess
Stop feeding wildlife
This is so sad :( don’t feed wild animals!
Someone's feeding the Deer.
What part of “Don’t Feed the Animals” did you not understand?
Feeding deer is bad enough but it also attracts mountain lions into your neighborhood
Yeah lets fuck up nature for some views online!
STOP FEEDING THEM down vote this to oblivion
What a fun way to have ticks brought to your home everyday.
OP is a possum
Don't feed wild animals, WTF!!!! Now they are dependent, fooking coonts
Do you want ticks? Because this is how you get ticks…. Lyme disease sucks…
Comfortable around humans? That's not good.
Now you have 12 ticks
Stop feeding wild animals you fucking weirdos
Do not feed wild deer. If you find an orphaned or injured fawn, call parks and wildlife/animal control/etc.
if these are rescue deer that are unable to released into a wild herd and the OP is a person with the proper permits to keep said herd of unreleasable deer for X reasons, then yes, this is cute.
don't feed wildlife, watch out for chronic wasting disease
OP has been feeding these things, 100%
Don't feed wild deer. For a whole bunch of reasons.
"Don't feed animals" is the first thing everyone learns when being educated about the environment. It's posted prominently at the entrance of every park, refuge, and preserve in the US. How are people still so lacking in common sense?
bUt mY TikTOk!
“Excuse me, but we forget where we parked the sleigh”
Are you Snow White? If not, why do you have a herd of deer in your backyard?
Stop feeding wildlife to take a cute fuckin pic. You're seriously the worst type of person. You're weakening the gene pool and creating animals with an unnatural attraction to humans that will just either get them attacked by pets, hit by cars, or euthanized by fish and wildlife.
Meanwhile, Steve Rinella is scratching his head trying to figure out how C19 spread into the deer population.
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Aww. Someone is illegally feeding wildlife! So cute! Now those deer don't have a natural fear of humans, instead they associate humans with food. Pretty much doomed them. Aww!
Deer are gorgeous from a distance. But they're really oversized rats if you start feeding them.
I once owned a bunch of land in Washington that was on a river and had many apple trees...so we always had a lot of deer around. When we'd go pick a bunch of apples for making cider or pies, we'd sit outside and prep the apple. Without a doubt a deer would show up looking for apples to munch on.
After being there for a few years, every deer in the neighborhood would show up when they saw us out there peeling apples, it was so amazing. They absolutely loved those things, and it was fun to see them get a little food and hang out for a while.
I only count 7. Someone is missing.
Blitzen is off today.
For everyone complaining about them being fed, y'all should be downvoting the fuck out of this. I'm usually the "hey, let people do what they want with their money" guy, but stop feeding the fucking deer just so you can get social media likes. It's pretty fucking pathetic.
I didn't see a single snoot be booped and I am thoroughly disappointed