Comments on: Deer Takes On Lions at the National Zoo

By: We just missed seeing a deer enter the lions den at the National Zoo | William World News

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By: Maximo Rickenbaker

Maximo Rickenbaker — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:41:25 +0000

Thanks for the great hunting advice. I appreciate it. Thank you again!

By: carter

carter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:26:48 +0000

“UPDATE: Unfortunately, it looks like the deer had to be put down due to its injuries”

UMMM . why didn’t they just let the lion eat it?

By: john

john — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:45:49 +0000

Listening to these idiots get all upset is why this country has some serious problems…..awwww…poor little deer is gonna get eaten by the big bad lion. We need to rescue the little deer from such a hazardous situation……no matter the cost…

By: tiny killa

tiny killa — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:20:24 +0000

damn that deer got lucky if i was the lion i would of ate em up

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:50:34 +0000

I’m curious, cass … what deer habitat has been lost (or “reduced”) within the DC city limits in the last forty to fifty years?

By: Carl Weaver

Carl Weaver — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:01:17 +0000

Actually, that habitat reduction problem led to the overpopulation problem, so you are both right. We also don’t want the deer’s natural predators, namely coyotes and hunters, roaming around our neighborhoods and killing our cute woodland friends, so what we get is too darned many nuisances and varmints like deer.

By: cass

cass — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:56:11 +0000

We don’t have a deer overpopulation problem, we have a habitat reduction problem.

By: Kashuo

Kashuo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:25:50 +0000

Wow, that’s crazy! I have to admit, I kinda think the lion deserved a little treat of actually hunting down a live animal. We have a deer overpopulation problem anyway.

By: Carl Weaver

Carl Weaver — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:39:20 +0000

See, if DC allowed firearms to be carried, that deer would have nothing to worry about.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:12:36 +0000

Ah, water, the natural enemy of all cats. But seriously, it can’t be good for the lion culture that the zoo staff didn’t let them kill the intruder… :OP

But really seriously, I don’t think the lions were into it. At least what’s visible in the video, they were playing with the deer. I’ve seen my family’s cat do much the same with mice she has caught.

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:07:50 +0000

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By: Ajay

Ajay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:46:30 +0000

Don’t go into the long grass!

By: Muldoon

Muldoon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:03:23 +0000

SHOOT HER!!!

By: WFY

WFY — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:58:40 +0000

I missed seeing this by 45 minutes.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:42:07 +0000

I LOVE the woman at the end of the video saying “There has to be some kind of emergency to deal with something like this…” That’s right lady, the DCPD, DCFD, etc. routinely practice deer jumps into the lion pit rescue ops.

By: cass

cass — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:04:45 +0000

Kinda sad, really. If that lion were wild, that dear would be toast. But never having to hunt and not having much room to run, it couldn’t even hold onto a deer right in its lap.

By: Convince Me DC

Convince Me DC — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:01:59 +0000

Fascinating! How traumatic for all the visiting kids would it have been if the lion had defeated the deer?

By: Adam Lawrence

Adam Lawrence — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:12:42 +0000

I imagine the dead deer would have been used as food. At the zoos I have worked with it is normal procedure to feed healthy dead animals (whole and unbutchered) to appropriate meat-eaters. Natural diet and all that.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:46:58 +0000

Not according to Darwin