A coyote just killed a fawn RIGHT OUTSIDE THE OFFICE!!!!!!!

[XemaSab]

Unreal!

The fawn got some good digs in, but it's looking pretty beat up! Still breathing though! Na, he's gone! Bleeding bad!

The coyote seems to be gone for the moment, but it'll probably be back!

Bambi just went DOWN!!!!!

[Ladyhawk]

1. Circle of life. It's fascinating, but hard to watch sometimes.

I saw an orca take a sea lion once.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Yeah... It's tough sometimes.

[WeRQ4U]

2. 'Tis nature

Better than watching a hunter shoot one and pose with it's lifeless head for some 8x10.

I am not anti-hunting, because I like the meat, but it's always been strange for me to watch my relatives take pictures like that. Creepy.

[Ladyhawk]

34. Yeah, I hear you.

There's a part of me that enjoys watching predation. I like to watch osprey take fish and I have to admit I was thrilled by the orca attack on the sea lion. I like sea lions. A lot.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Good Lord! It's like Wild Kingdom!

Sorry about the deer though. Circle of life and all doesn't make it pleasant.

[HeeBGBz]

4. Bummer.

I suppose Wile E. needs dindin, but how sad.

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[GOPisEvil]

8. *Deleted*

Was that really necessary?

Removed title.

[Shakespeare]

9. What was the OP supposed to do? Go outside and wrestle the coyote?

puh-leeeze

[Pobeka]

12. Only after greasing it first!

:evilgrin:

[bigwillq]

20. LOL!

:rofl:

[Ladyhawk]

35. It's just the way things are in the wild. Everything has to eat.

[jonnyblitz]

38. LMFAO.

damn that was funny...

[BikeWriter]

10. That seems rather severe. She merely related an uncommon occurence.

[Kraklen]

13. Why do you hate coyotes?

[RPM]

15. jeebus crisp

mellowwwwwwwwwwww, mellowwwwwwwwww, mellowwwwwwwwwwww

Seriously - was that necessary?

[MrScorpio]

6. I guess is dinner time

Time to EAT!

[Orsino]

7. Ick.

Coyotes gotta eat, too, but geez.

[Kraklen]

11. AWESOME!

Take a picture. It'll last longer.

[bigwillq]

14. Did you take any pics?

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

16. I didn't!

It was all I could do to grab my binoculars and tell my fellow biologist to come watch!

Wildlife biology is rarely this interesting...

[bigwillq]

17. They would've been cool pics

Maybe next time!:hi:

[XemaSab]

19. Just looked like a dog shaking a toy

Nothing too gory... but pretty intense!

[hickman1937]

18. Thank God for suberbs.

I really don't want a front row seat for the circle of life. Call me a coward.

[mike_c]

21. cool....

Where's Marlin Perkins when life needs commentary?

[XemaSab]

23. Go click on my bug thread

n/t

[mike_c]

29. neat, an elderberry beetle....

You saw one? They're listed. You're sure it wasn't a milkweed beetle (much more common):

[XemaSab]

30. I lied

I didn't actually see one. I wanted to post it and see what interesting things people said.

I did actually see the coyote and the fawn though.

Even more exciting than a VELB!

[Cocoa]

22. I take it you don't work on Wall Street

just curious, what part of the country was this in?

[XemaSab]

24. Sierra foothills

near Yosemite.

[Schema Thing]

25. "sharks of the forest" they call them.

[XemaSab]

26. and they call sharks

"coyotes of the sea"...

poignant...

[RPM]

28. did somebody say "shark week"?

:hide:

[Enraged_Ape]

31. Mark Twain called them "emaciated, cowardly wolves"

Which is really what they are. Coyotes NEVER opt for anything close to a fair fight. If they think for a second they're outgunned, they'll run away.

[hlthe2b]

32. deleting duplicate post..

[hlthe2b]

33. oh.... and I thought I had a hard time when the fox got the squirrel

outside my office window.... I really was sad, as this particular squirrel had been quite the acrobat and performer and to see his little limp body being carried in the fox's mouth as he headed across the parking lot back into the woods--that's nature, but still a bit sad.

I hope you (or the returning coyote) were able to put Bambi out of his misery? Doesn't make sense that the coyote would just leave it, if mortally wounded? Perhaps some one came up on him and startled him?

[DS1]

36. You wanted him to bring it inside first?

:D

[roguevalley]

37. how ghastly. this spring, a buncha people in Anchorage were

awakened in their urban neighborhood by the shrieking cries of a child, or so they thought. They went out and it was a grizzly bear attacking and killing a moose calf. It took about a half hour for the animal to die and it shrieked the whole time. It was god awful.