primitivepathways.com This dramatic series of photos shows a bobcat attack and kill a small mule deer. The photos were taken in October, 2016 by my brother's trail camera.
Truly it is sad when dumb humans who love bambi chase away preditors trying to hunt and eat and balance the food chain. We have done enough harm to natire, this is just stupid. Do not fear though, the scavangers will consume the deer and nothing truly goes to waste in nature.
what is unfortunate is that that bobcat worked hard for that meal and was chased off. who knows how long it will take for it to find another opportunity to eat. probably had kittens depending on that meal too. unfortunate indeed
Why would he try to save the deer? Do you how much effort that poor Bobcat had to put into a successful hunt? Any good hunter should have recognized and respected it.
From the video, "...but unfortunately, he was too late to save the deer." So I say, "Save the deer?" And you're talking to me about syntax? Bwahahaahahaaaa.....ok, whatever there, snowflake.
Please stop fluffing your own ego, snowflake. You didn't understand my point, are making a point of your own that was not mine, and are now trying to argue about it. Take care.
Good to see that others know what they are talking about! I'm Thankful for People Like You, that understand, and have Respect for Nature, and "Other Hunters!!!" Good on ya Sarah!
Kiss my ass you Wimps! It’s Nature ,A bobcat Has to eat just like you and I do! I am a hunter, and I’ve perfected my skill with high-powered rifles, and I can make kill shots at 600 yards. With my 300 magnum. Right through the heart,So the animal doesn’t suffer. It’s dead before it here’s the report of my rifle at that range.I was only stating my respect for the bobcat, because he is a Hunter too...
Mike Mcdonnell a murderer? Okay you snowflake don’t start crying holy f*ck grow some balls you pussy.. it’s called SURVIVAL! meanwhile you probably eat your steak from the supermarket and haven’t ever killed your food
right, Deer literally exist to be eaten. No senses, no defenses, no offenses, just a crazy reproductive rate and tons of easy to acquire meat. Thank you god for providing such an easy and bountiful supply of protein
@@majormindflayer7614 I mean you're half right but they do have defenses. Good nose, good hearing and they're obviously faster which is why predators have to sneak up on them but they are bountiful for sure. So much that they're a cars worst enemy lol.
I don't disagree... but I have to say, Bambi was a movie, not a TV show. I do not know these "reruns" off which you speak. Also, it was a heck of a book.
A predator that doesn't bother people and rarely bothers livestock takes one young wild deer and that's unfortunate? This is why we have such a messed up predator/prey balance in most of North America.
Jason Patterson you're right! People need to leave predators alone. How is it unfortunate that a bobcat killed a deer when the deer population is too high anyway? The more deer in a given area the more car accidents, injuries and deaths you're gonna have due to the deer. My cousin works for an auto insurance company and says deer cause thousands of accidents every year in the United States alone. That's not counting other parts of the world with high deer populations due to lack of natural predators.
Actually, mule deer populations out west are in decline and have been for a number of years. Biologists have been concerned about that but aren't sure of the reason...but most likely it's probably too many people. So you're point about there being too many deer is incorrect. Secondly, would you say the same thing about me if I shot a deer and posted a video about it?
You're assuming he doesn't eat the deer he harvests. And what do you think will happen to the bobcats and other predators when their prey goes "extinct"??
@@manhdo5841 lol, always the rhino's, you liberal shills always lump legitimate hunters in with poachers, please do some research and educate yourself. Your assumption that people shoot deer for sport and not food is wrong, we put a lot of time and energy into ensuring a clean ethical kill and I'm yet to meet anyone who kills merely for sport (and if I did they'd be sorry).
why disturb the bobcat? yall probably hunted it and killed it later on. there are tens of millions of deer, not so many bobcats. let them do their thing.
This is why I hate sheltered babies.Growing up in the backwoods by the Rockies this is normal. It's nature. If delicate pansies like this guy & his brother can't handle it - coming across as delicate & effeminate as preteen girls - then they should stay out of nature & live in a city. They're a pest. Not nature.
Why worry about "saving" the deer? This is the way that nature works. A faster or more alert deer would have remained in the gene pool. Bobcats need to eat too. I'm impressed. I didn't think a Bobcat could take down a deer so easily but then I didn't think an Eagle could take down a deer either.
Why would an adult man act like it was so sad for the deer? The only sad thing is that the cat worked hard to be successful and was run off after killing it's prey. It's a pansy snowflake world these days.
Jake Landshark Its because of their size . That's why people are surprised that they occasionally take a deer. But this is very rare. Most of their diet is rabbit , squirrel and other rodents.
OF course! I saw one the other day in a minivan at the Arby's drive through ordering a bunch of roast beef sandwiches for its kittens that were in the back seat....and they were all in the approved child seats so that was a smart, and legal bobcat mom!
Badass bobcat! I wouldn't have thought they went after deer, that was cool, hope your brother left the deer there so the cat could come back and eat some of its hard won dinner.
@Primitive Pathways I'm pretty sure that in one of your earlier comments you wrote that the scavengers ate the carcass, so the bobcat did not get it. Which one was it?
Good video Billy, there's nothing unfortunate about not being able to save the deer though. That's a valuable, hard-earned meal for a bobcat. Some must die so that others may live. That's simply the way of life and it always has been.
This guy makes this sound like a tragedy. This is fucking nature. I’m glad that bobcats are capable of controlling the deer population because coyotes don’t do shit around where I live because we don’t get much snow anymore. I don’t see why people can’t just let nature do it’s thing, it’s not like bobcats are endangering the entire population.
@@zack_demonic doesn’t make any difference anyway, they’re still one of the most numerous mammalian predators in The Americas, I don’t like them either but if they didn’t have those debuffs they’d be out of control lol
Unfortunately he was too late to save the Deer? Its sad he interrupted the Bobcats Dinner. Its best to allow Nature to take its course. I hope he left the Deer carcass for the Bobcat to enjoy after he left? I mean, the Deer was dead and the Bobcat Did harvest it as that is what they do brother. Enjoyed the Video by the way. Thank you very much for posting it.
There is no mercy in mother nature, eat or be eaten is the rule, compassion, remorse, sympathy, are attributes to humans, it is an unbelievable act of brutality what is shown here, but we are looking at it through OUR senses as a human. But our forefathers SOMEHOW gain the feeling and senses of community, compassion and remorse. They fought big beast and hunted others, fed themselves and share their kills with young and old, and those who could not provide for themselves, and become the top predator and got us to where we are Now. Was it an act of Divine, or Mother nature, or some other phenomenal to chose us, is for one to decide, the Fact remain the same, that if it wasn't for The hunting ability of our forefathers, these few lines would NOT be on you Computer screen. A top video, congrats to your brother who captured this educational sequences of photos , not 5 but 10 *s video, and with best regards, from New Zealand, Tony.
By chasing the bobcat off, you made it kill something else, or many other things to replace this meal. So, by intervening, you caused more harm. Way to go.
Why didn’t you just let the bobcat eat it’s dinner in peace? It takes a lot of his energy for him to kill that deer. If the bobcat died it’s your fault.
Thanks Billy, I am impressed by the footage and the boldness of the bobcat, also I had always been told that they were so shy that they wouldn't leave the cover of brush but the footage says otherwise. Awesome Brother, keep up the videos!
@Primitive Pathways I'm pretty sure that in one of your earlier comments you wrote that the scavengers ate the carcass, so the bobcat did not get it. Which one was it? If the cat did come back and ate it and you guys have the pictures, please make antoher video, I'm sure a lot of people would love to see it and that it'd have a lot of views.
Why would he interfere with nature? That was not very bright of him! I can understand if someone was poking an animal with a stick or tormenting an animal. But don't interrupt the natural order of what takes place in the wild....
What an awesome event to capture on a trail cam! Love it..amazing hunters these bobcats! I don't find this unfortunate at all..it's well earned and fortunate for the bobcat and hopefully his kittens too
nature also goes to the bigger scarier scavengers like bears or mountain lions (not actual scavengers i know) Wolf kills a deer and a bear smells it a bear would scare off the wolf and eat what it wants and leave the rest for the bugs
This guy's got to be straight from the suburbs of some major metropolis, raised up on latte's and smart phones. Save the deer? Why on God's green earth would you do that? So the Bobcat and her kittens can starve to death? Deer are common and bountiful; Bobcat's are rare and fragile. Leave nature to her course.
No he left the deer. Within a day or two there was nothing but bones left. The scavengers picked the deer clean so quickly that it didn't even get to the point where it smelled rotten!
Primitive Pathways did you really mean to say "save the deer". If you didn't, please repost something for everyone to read what you meant. Do you even know how that sounds
Your interruption may have caused another death. Who knows what other animal the bobcat had to kill because of that. But to be honest, I may have react the same way. Strange, when watching the clip, I feel sorry for the deer and want it to escape and at the same time I'm all with the bobcat. Seems like two souls are within me - one is prey and one is predator.
That's true...I can feel for both animals. Being a hunter I understand where the bobcat is coming from. But I also feel for the deer. It's a weird tangle of emotions.
Awesome attack and kill video. Proof positive that a 25 pound bobcat can take down a 50 pound fawn. Everything has to eat in nature so i don't blame the bobcat for the attack. A young deer also isn't always as alert and swift to dodge nor strong enough to break free so I don't blame the deer either. for its demise It's just how nature works. But it does point out the abject cruelty and lack of compassion any predatory killer has for its prey. As you noted, it takes minutes for a deer to bleed out and die due to punctures and bites to the neck. A deer needs to bleed out about 3 pints of blood in order to die. I say this simply to point out that a vital zone bullet from a hunter's gun kills far more humanely than predators in nature ever do. I'd be willing to bet a lot of those saying let the bobcat kill and eat the deer would be completely against a hunter killing the same deer. To the deer it doesn't matter all that much; it dies either way. What this video proves is that controlling the deer population via hunting isn't any more traumatic or unethical than simply allowing nature's predators to do the same job. Thanks for sharing a great video!
Unfortunately you can't just the size of the Bobcat from the photos. I live in a typical residential neighborhood just outside of Phoenix, Arizona proper. One morning I had a Bobcat with three kittens in my front yard. It was the first time I had ever seen a Bobcat in a more or less natural setting. I was stunned by how small it was. It was about the size of a very large housecat.
I get a kick out of people who always talk about how a coyote will win in fight against a coyote. They have never actually witnessed a bobcat attack anything. Just a few years ago while hunting from my deer stand I watched a young female bobcat that was only 12 to 15 pounds absolutely destroy a large male coyote that was 45+ pounds. She came walking up the ridge with a rabbit she had caught and the large male coyote sneaked up behind her and tried to steal her catch. It didn't take but a few seconds for him to realize he just made the mistake of his life. She wrapped her legs around his neck and head, sunk her claws in and went to chewing with her teeth. He tried everything he could to shake her off but all he could do was roll with her and scream. After probably 15 to 20 seconds she finally let go and all you could see was him running away yelping with his head tore all to pieces. Never underestimate any kind of cat. They are Apex predators....
Mother Nature at her finest !! I’ve seen a coyote haul down a fawn & drag the dead fawn back to her baby yotes........Not fun to witness but that is the way Mother Nature works......
What is this nonsense about him saying it is unfortunate that the deer died? Dude, bobcat has gotta eat! For an ecosystem to function properly, there must be a sufficient number of predators to keep prey animal numbers within control. All a deer has to do to eat is lower its head and open its mouth. Bobcats have gotta work hard to survive. Don’t interfere with that.
We have a lot of bobcat and cougar here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I never knew that bobcat hunt deer! Fascinating to see these pix. Thank you!
One time my uncle walked into his backyard to check on his pony. His pony was dead. Nearby a bobcat also lied dead. Apparently the bobcat killed the pony but not without the pony getting in a good kick in to the cat.
You are absolutely right...I knew someone was going to catch me on that. But if you can tell the difference between a white tail deer and a mule deer you know the predator prey balance is way out of wack
Every one assumes he chased the cat off after witnessing the kill, WRONG the pictures were captured by a trai cam and when he drove up the cat got scared off. I'm pretty sure the cat came back to claim his kill, if not he's just gonna do it again.
This is NOT Unfortunate, this is Nature, and the Bobcat Deserves his Meal! (And could be feeding little ones)... I am a Hunter, and I Respect other Hunter's Rights! This Hunter is Exceptional, and Probably worked really hard to pull this off! That's the Problem, People DO NOT Understand Nature, and Screw Up Everything by, Making Misinformed Videos Like this, and Building their Houses in Wild Animal Habitat, and then complain when the Deer, are eating their Plants etc... Educate Yourselves to the Level of Objectivity People, and then we can have an Intellectual Discussion on the Subject! I can see that there are others who Understand, and Agree with me! I am so Thankful for People Like You, PCL Outdoors & Bushcraft! You have your head on straight, and know what you are talking about!!!
No, the camera is set to take a 3-shot burst of photos when it detects movement, then it pauses for a few seconds before it takes another burst of photos.
How was this 'unfortunate'? The bobcat was doing what bobcats do.
he is unable shoot down the road.
Pixtol why so hostile?
Truly it is sad when dumb humans who love bambi chase away preditors trying to hunt and eat and balance the food chain. We have done enough harm to natire, this is just stupid. Do not fear though, the scavangers will consume the deer and nothing truly goes to waste in nature.
if its the other way around, a matured deer kill a baby bob cat, its stil unfortunate.
what is unfortunate is that that bobcat worked hard for that meal and was chased off. who knows how long it will take for it to find another opportunity to eat. probably had kittens depending on that meal too. unfortunate indeed
Kittens aren't born in the winter....
True, but the cat still has to eat to survive
WHo cares let the bobcat eat the deer. Its dead and let it get his/her reward. WHy the fuck did you chase it away
@@primitivepathways ... Kits usually aren't born during the winter but bobcat can breed all year...and will if it's a mild winter!!
Primitive Pathways why interfere with nature that’s like a velociraptor killing a triceratops and then getting chased off by a trex
Why would he try to save the deer? Do you how much effort that poor Bobcat had to put into a successful hunt? Any good hunter should have recognized and respected it.
aHigher Power why would you put lol at the end you had a good statement
happytroll 247, That's one lame thing people use to self-ruin their comments. His use of "lol" in the end is totally retarded!
Liger King ikr
aHigher Power unfortunately these pussy Libtard snowflakes don't see it that way!!!
Well said
Save the deer? Shit, let that thing eat what it clearly earned...
well he doesnt mean save it after it was already dead...
?? That's not what I meant at all.
touchnova then learn syntax
From the video, "...but unfortunately, he was too late to save the deer." So I say, "Save the deer?" And you're talking to me about syntax? Bwahahaahahaaaa.....ok, whatever there, snowflake.
Please stop fluffing your own ego, snowflake. You didn't understand my point, are making a point of your own that was not mine, and are now trying to argue about it. Take care.
Bobcats gotta eat too. Hope he left the deer for the cat to come back too.
He did leave the deer. Scavengers returned and picked it clean within a day or two.
Michael Parrish dick
Michael Parrish shwack a bobcat
Michael Parrish fair to hunt with bow but guns are not sporting.
Behindtheblackstump bobcats life matters also bro lol
Poor Bobcat, cat can't even eat anymore after a hard days work.
poor bobcat! u dumb
Save the deer? How about you guys just let nature take its course. We have done enough already
Exactly.
@Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin true because I seen already just riding on the highway deer and twin babies twice and once in the neighborhood
I see deer often I live in North Louisiana
That's why black bears showing up more
DAMM RIGHT BUD!
Too late to save the deer? So the bobcat should starve? You just ruined his dinner he worked so hard for. Lame af.
Good to see that others know what they are talking about! I'm Thankful for People Like You, that understand, and have Respect for Nature, and "Other Hunters!!!" Good on ya Sarah!
@@GWAsnipr7 Can you shut the fuck up the dudes brother took a pic of the bob cat returning for its feast
@@GWAsnipr7 bobcat is a murderer god is cruel
Kiss my ass you Wimps! It’s Nature ,A bobcat Has to eat just like you and I do! I am a hunter, and I’ve perfected my skill with high-powered rifles, and I can make kill shots at 600 yards. With my 300 magnum. Right through the heart,So the animal doesn’t suffer. It’s dead before it here’s the report of my rifle at that range.I was only stating my respect for the bobcat, because he is a Hunter too...
Mike Mcdonnell a murderer? Okay you snowflake don’t start crying holy f*ck grow some balls you pussy.. it’s called SURVIVAL! meanwhile you probably eat your steak from the supermarket and haven’t ever killed your food
"Too late to save the deer?"
It pains me when people watch so many Bambi reruns and start believing prey should be saved.
Esp dumb because he called that area a food plot---that means they've been FEEDING the deer so they can shoot them during deer season.
right, Deer literally exist to be eaten. No senses, no defenses, no offenses, just a crazy reproductive rate and tons of easy to acquire meat. Thank you god for providing such an easy and bountiful supply of protein
@@majormindflayer7614 no senses, no defense, no offense? I hope you're being sarcastic.
@@majormindflayer7614 I mean you're half right but they do have defenses. Good nose, good hearing and they're obviously faster which is why predators have to sneak up on them but they are bountiful for sure. So much that they're a cars worst enemy lol.
I don't disagree... but I have to say, Bambi was a movie, not a TV show. I do not know these "reruns" off which you speak. Also, it was a heck of a book.
A predator that doesn't bother people and rarely bothers livestock takes one young wild deer and that's unfortunate? This is why we have such a messed up predator/prey balance in most of North America.
Jason Patterson you're right! People need to leave predators alone. How is it unfortunate that a bobcat killed a deer when the deer population is too high anyway? The more deer in a given area the more car accidents, injuries and deaths you're gonna have due to the deer. My cousin works for an auto insurance company and says deer cause thousands of accidents every year in the United States alone. That's not counting other parts of the world with high deer populations due to lack of natural predators.
Actually, mule deer populations out west are in decline and have been for a number of years. Biologists have been concerned about that but aren't sure of the reason...but most likely it's probably too many people. So you're point about there being too many deer is incorrect. Secondly, would you say the same thing about me if I shot a deer and posted a video about it?
You're assuming he doesn't eat the deer he harvests. And what do you think will happen to the bobcats and other predators when their prey goes "extinct"??
@@manhdo5841 you easily forget that humans are natural predators
@@manhdo5841 lol, always the rhino's, you liberal shills always lump legitimate hunters in with poachers, please do some research and educate yourself.
Your assumption that people shoot deer for sport and not food is wrong, we put a lot of time and energy into ensuring a clean ethical kill and I'm yet to meet anyone who kills merely for sport (and if I did they'd be sorry).
why disturb the bobcat? yall probably hunted it and killed it later on. there are tens of millions of deer, not so many bobcats. let them do their thing.
@@s1iznc1d34 bobcat guilty of murder 1 Hunt it down and execute
@@s1iznc1d34 Food supply, habitat and disease are more likely to limit free ranging populations.
The bobcat left it alone scavengers ate the body
This is why I hate sheltered babies.Growing up in the backwoods by the Rockies this is normal. It's nature. If delicate pansies like this guy & his brother can't handle it - coming across as delicate & effeminate as preteen girls - then they should stay out of nature & live in a city. They're a pest. Not nature.
@@paradox5236 probably because it was chased off by the people
nothing unfortunate about a bobcat getting a meal.
"too late to save the deer" from wild predator? seriously?
What?
Lmao. I thought the same thing
Lol. Gotta eat.
Yes later the bob cat was found queueing at a local Mac Donald’s .
Lol save the deer! 😂😅🤣
Deer was already dead. Should have just left the bobcat to enjoy what he/she worked hard for.
he did...
What the trail cam doesn't show is the dozen times the bobcat was unsuccessful before successfully taking down a small enough deer.
Machismo
Exactly. Yea it's nice to save the deer and all but the bobcat has to eat too.
The bobcat probably went back to it at night
maybe he made a nice venison for himself
grow up buddy its called the food chain,,,
Mike Edwards ikr
+Devil kazuya triggered
+Devil kazuya It means "I know right"
You literally asked "what is ikr". Great ad hominem attack. Really shows character and maturity.
The bobcat has to eat too. The food plot for the deer became the food plot for the bobcat, thats nature
Why worry about "saving" the deer? This is the way that nature works. A faster or more alert deer would have remained in the gene pool. Bobcats need to eat too. I'm impressed. I didn't think a Bobcat could take down a deer so easily but then I didn't think an Eagle could take down a deer either.
Old Dog In fact now that you mention it...I saw a weasel taking down a deer just the other day!
@@globodog I saw a fieldmouse pull a gun on a cow.
Hope he came back for his feast
He did. MY brother captured another picture of it eating the deer.
Why is this sad.
This is great.
This is how nature is supposed to be.
The bocat is fed and the herd is under control.
God made nature perfect.
Ronald Moorer agreed. Sad we mess it up
I can’t agree more.
Why would an adult man act like it was so sad for the deer? The only sad thing is that the cat worked hard to be successful and was run off after killing it's prey. It's a pansy snowflake world these days.
He looks like he'd snap you in half
What do you think Bob cats eat at McD?
Jake Landshark they eat mc rib bro...i know
Jake Landshark Its because of their size . That's why people are surprised that they occasionally take a deer. But this is very rare. Most of their diet is rabbit , squirrel and other rodents.
Jake Landshark 😂😂that comment👌🏽
Jake Landshark your mom? well everyone else is anyway... lmmfaoam
OF course! I saw one the other day in a minivan at the Arby's drive through ordering a bunch of roast beef sandwiches for its kittens that were in the back seat....and they were all in the approved child seats so that was a smart, and legal bobcat mom!
Badass bobcat! I wouldn't have thought they went after deer, that was cool, hope your brother left the deer there so the cat could come back and eat some of its hard won dinner.
Amen Brother.
yeah he left the deer and the bobcat came back and ate it. We got more trail cam pics of it returning to eat from the kill...
@Primitive Pathways I'm pretty sure that in one of your earlier comments you wrote that the scavengers ate the carcass, so the bobcat did not get it. Which one was it?
@@SpartanThe300th it’s not like the bobcat would eat the entire deer
@@shanek6582 if it had a litter of kittens, it would. That fawn would feed a mum + a couple of kittens for several days.
Good video Billy, there's nothing unfortunate about not being able to save the deer though. That's a valuable, hard-earned meal for a bobcat. Some must die so that others may live. That's simply the way of life and it always has been.
This guy makes this sound like a tragedy. This is fucking nature. I’m glad that bobcats are capable of controlling the deer population because coyotes don’t do shit around where I live because we don’t get much snow anymore. I don’t see why people can’t just let nature do it’s thing, it’s not like bobcats are endangering the entire population.
Nature hit coyotes with an L, legit every other predators (other than badgers)in the woods hate coyotes
@@zack_demonic doesn’t make any difference anyway, they’re still one of the most numerous mammalian predators in The Americas, I don’t like them either but if they didn’t have those debuffs they’d be out of control lol
why the hell would he try to save the deer? let this cat eat and let nature takes its course bobcats have been hunting deer for thousands.
Unfortunately he was too late to save the Deer? Its sad he interrupted the Bobcats Dinner. Its best to allow Nature to take its course. I hope he left the Deer carcass for the Bobcat to enjoy after he left? I mean, the Deer was dead and the Bobcat Did harvest it as that is what they do brother. Enjoyed the Video by the way. Thank you very much for posting it.
"Unfortunately?" I take the predator's side and not the prey's, it'd only be unfortunate if the deer had gotten away.
Why would you try and save the deer .. Should have left the bobcat alone to eat it's hard earned meal ..
Why would you interfere with nature. The bobcat has to eat and earned its meal risking injury to itself.
dont save the deer, then the bobcat would have died from no food, it went through all that effort just to run away scared from a human.
Phyankord good
Phyankord let that cat die HAHAHAHAHA
Deer are about 30 times more common than they used to be before people in many parts of the country... Natural animal control of deer is a good thing
The bobcat came back later and ate it
Why would he save the deer. You know bobcats have to eat too
There is no mercy in mother nature, eat or be eaten is the rule, compassion, remorse, sympathy, are attributes to humans, it is an unbelievable act of brutality what is shown here, but we are looking at it through OUR senses as a human.
But our forefathers SOMEHOW gain the feeling and senses of community, compassion and remorse.
They fought big beast and hunted others, fed themselves and share their kills with young and old, and those who could not provide for themselves, and become the top predator and got us to where we are Now.
Was it an act of Divine, or Mother nature, or some other phenomenal to chose us, is for one to decide, the Fact remain the same, that if it wasn't for The hunting ability of our forefathers, these few lines would NOT be on you Computer screen.
A top video, congrats to your brother who captured this educational sequences of photos , not 5 but 10 *s video, and with best regards, from New Zealand, Tony.
Brilliant.
Petey Peterson
if that deer was a dog there would be a lot of hate in the comments
Unfortunately?
How do you expect him to eat?
@@s1iznc1d34 nope. cats are strict meat eaters.
By chasing the bobcat off, you made it kill something else, or many other things to replace this meal. So, by intervening, you caused more harm. Way to go.
Save the deer ? wtf that's something my wife would say :(
Natural selection at work.. Cat earned the kill..
Save the deer. Yeah, it's so sad that such a endangered species is dying off like this. You gotta be nuts.
Why didn’t you just let the bobcat eat it’s dinner in peace? It takes a lot of his energy for him to kill that deer. If the bobcat died it’s your fault.
Fuck the cat !
Bob cat gota eat too!
Unfortunately? Bobcats have to eat, too. Circle of life, dude.
You may find it sad, but as the great Steve Irwin use to say, "That's natures way."
and why did your brother think he should save the deer? Fool
Thanks Billy, I am impressed by the footage and the boldness of the bobcat, also I had always been told that they were so shy that they wouldn't leave the cover of brush but the footage says otherwise. Awesome Brother, keep up the videos!
Should have left it. Why do these people get involved?? The deer was already dead.
Bob cats are capable of taking down smaller dear easily. It gets better at it every time it is successful. This cat looks full grown and healthy.
Well really he should’ve just left the deer for the cat.
My brother actually did and the bobcat returned to finish off its kill. He got trail camera pics of it when it came back.
@Primitive Pathways I'm pretty sure that in one of your earlier comments you wrote that the scavengers ate the carcass, so the bobcat did not get it. Which one was it?
If the cat did come back and ate it and you guys have the pictures, please make antoher video, I'm sure a lot of people would love to see it and that it'd have a lot of views.
Thanks for uploading!
Why would he interfere with nature? That was not very bright of him! I can understand if someone was poking an animal with a stick or tormenting an animal. But don't interrupt the natural order of what takes place in the wild....
The dude's brother need the meat more than the bobcat. Poor animal worked so hard for its dinner and was taken. Dawned
What an awesome event to capture on a trail cam! Love it..amazing hunters these bobcats! I don't find this unfortunate at all..it's well earned and fortunate for the bobcat and hopefully his kittens too
Well versed. Factual information. No crazy intros or obnoxious music.
Thanks for the video, most people do not know how powerful a bobcat is, they are tough.
WTF? Mr & Mrs Bobcat & Family have to eat too!
^..^~~
Unfortunately? Isn't this part of nature? Poor Bobcat, all that hard work and he doesn't even get to eat its deer cake.
nature also goes to the bigger scarier scavengers like bears or mountain lions (not actual scavengers i know) Wolf kills a deer and a bear smells it a bear would scare off the wolf and eat what it wants and leave the rest for the bugs
This guy's got to be straight from the suburbs of some major metropolis, raised up on latte's and smart phones. Save the deer? Why on God's green earth would you do that? So the Bobcat and her kittens can starve to death? Deer are common and bountiful; Bobcat's are rare and fragile. Leave nature to her course.
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Did he take the deer or leave it for the critters?
No he left the deer. Within a day or two there was nothing but bones left. The scavengers picked the deer clean so quickly that it didn't even get to the point where it smelled rotten!
He did not catch the Bobcat returning on the trail cam?
Primitive Pathways did you really mean to say "save the deer". If you didn't, please repost something for everyone to read what you meant. Do you even know how that sounds
Your interruption may have caused another death. Who knows what other animal the bobcat had to kill because of that.
But to be honest, I may have react the same way. Strange, when watching the clip, I feel sorry for the deer and want it to escape and at the same time I'm all with the bobcat. Seems like two souls are within me - one is prey and one is predator.
That's true...I can feel for both animals. Being a hunter I understand where the bobcat is coming from. But I also feel for the deer. It's a weird tangle of emotions.
This year I saw a bobcat kill a small elk I couldn't believe my eyes wish I would have had a video camera
The unfortunate thing is the prick who scared the bobcat off from his lunch.
What is unfortunate is when d-bag hunters kill bobcats for trophys.
There's nothing "unfortunate" about a bobcat getting a dinner.
Awesome attack and kill video. Proof positive that a 25 pound bobcat can take down a 50 pound fawn. Everything has to eat in nature so i don't blame the bobcat for the attack. A young deer also isn't always as alert and swift to dodge nor strong enough to break free so I don't blame the deer either. for its demise It's just how nature works. But it does point out the abject cruelty and lack of compassion any predatory killer has for its prey. As you noted, it takes minutes for a deer to bleed out and die due to punctures and bites to the neck. A deer needs to bleed out about 3 pints of blood in order to die. I say this simply to point out that a vital zone bullet from a hunter's gun kills far more humanely than predators in nature ever do. I'd be willing to bet a lot of those saying let the bobcat kill and eat the deer would be completely against a hunter killing the same deer. To the deer it doesn't matter all that much; it dies either way. What this video proves is that controlling the deer population via hunting isn't any more traumatic or unethical than simply allowing nature's predators to do the same job. Thanks for sharing a great video!
nice thats some rare pictures never seen any of a bobcat attack right on
For those who don’t know, northern large male bobcat can easily do this.
And shame on whoever fucking robbed this bobcat of it’s hard work.
Bobcats prefer rabbits or small deer but Ive seen footage of them
taking out large seer too.
Unfortunately you can't just the size of the Bobcat from the photos. I live in a typical residential neighborhood just outside of Phoenix, Arizona proper. One morning I had a Bobcat with three kittens in my front yard. It was the first time I had ever seen a Bobcat in a more or less natural setting. I was stunned by how small it was. It was about the size of a very large housecat.
I get a kick out of people who always talk about how a coyote will win in fight against a coyote. They have never actually witnessed a bobcat attack anything. Just a few years ago while hunting from my deer stand I watched a young female bobcat that was only 12 to 15 pounds absolutely destroy a large male coyote that was 45+ pounds. She came walking up the ridge with a rabbit she had caught and the large male coyote sneaked up behind her and tried to steal her catch. It didn't take but a few seconds for him to realize he just made the mistake of his life. She wrapped her legs around his neck and head, sunk her claws in and went to chewing with her teeth. He tried everything he could to shake her off but all he could do was roll with her and scream. After probably 15 to 20 seconds she finally let go and all you could see was him running away yelping with his head tore all to pieces. Never underestimate any kind of cat. They are Apex predators....
Mother Nature at her finest !! I’ve seen a coyote haul down a fawn & drag the dead fawn back to her baby yotes........Not fun to witness but that is the way Mother Nature works......
Where in CO did this take place?
Keep this in mind when choosing a skid steer. Bobcat will always outperform Deere.
love your voice, you should narrate stuff more often!
I was told that, in winter in the Adirondacks, if bobcats don't manage to get an occasional deer, they are unlikely to make it through the winter.
What is this nonsense about him saying it is unfortunate that the deer died? Dude, bobcat has gotta eat! For an ecosystem to function properly, there must be a sufficient number of predators to keep prey animal numbers within control. All a deer has to do to eat is lower its head and open its mouth. Bobcats have gotta work hard to survive. Don’t interfere with that.
It hunts just like a mountain lion. It lies in wait and ambushes pray from behind. Its really cool that this was actually documented photographically.
Dan man thats some amazing footage, lucky to get something that cool on cam. Nature is badass!
Yeah nature is pretty awesome!
We have a lot of bobcat and cougar here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I never knew that bobcat hunt deer! Fascinating to see these pix. Thank you!
What part of Colorado is this in? It looks just like an area I hunt where I got a bobcat on my trail can.
There aren’t many Bobcats, but there are many Deer notice where the deer was eating there wasn’t much to eat, needing a reduction
It's so crazy to me that an animal that isn't that much bigger than a house cat can take down deer.
Tik toker just posted one too. Crazy how such a small animal will go for a larger one that’s as quick
Save the deer? Why? My man earned that! What's your problem?!
A video is what I was looking for
It's called Nature
Fantastic narration
Why does the commentator think it is unfortunate that the Bobcat killed its prey? And why interfere with a predator going about earning its living.
One time my uncle walked into his backyard to check on his pony. His pony was dead. Nearby a bobcat also lied dead. Apparently the bobcat killed the pony but not without the pony getting in a good kick in to the cat.
That cat worked hard to earn that deer, and you took it away from it, that's what's unfortunate, not the deer being dead
You are absolutely right...I knew someone was going to catch me on that. But if you can tell the difference between a white tail deer and a mule deer you know the predator prey balance is way out of wack
I aways feel lucky to catch a glimpse of a bobcat up here in Oregon they are such elusive creatures.
The “smaller deer” is a small fawn. Common prey for bobcat. Not surprising at all.
thats so cool. im probably gonna do the arrow makeing class this year, and bring my friend for the bow makeing
Every one assumes he chased the cat off after witnessing the kill, WRONG the pictures were captured by a trai cam and when he drove up the cat got scared off. I'm pretty sure the cat came back to claim his kill, if not he's just gonna do it again.
Just for the ones of you that don’t know it’s not common for a bob cat to attack a dear. Mostly birds and smaller prey..
Dude snatched Bob's plate
So, it killed a young deer. What's so surprising about that?
This is NOT Unfortunate, this is Nature, and the Bobcat Deserves his Meal! (And could be feeding little ones)... I am a Hunter, and I Respect other Hunter's Rights! This Hunter is Exceptional, and Probably worked really hard to pull this off! That's the Problem, People DO NOT Understand Nature, and Screw Up Everything by, Making Misinformed Videos Like this, and Building their Houses in Wild Animal Habitat, and then complain when the Deer, are eating their Plants etc... Educate Yourselves to the Level of Objectivity People, and then we can have an Intellectual Discussion on the Subject! I can see that there are others who Understand, and Agree with me! I am so Thankful for People Like You, PCL Outdoors & Bushcraft! You have your head on straight, and know what you are talking about!!!
Is that in northern New Mexico?
He has a timelapse camera constantly running?
No, the camera is set to take a 3-shot burst of photos when it detects movement, then it pauses for a few seconds before it takes another burst of photos.
Excellent explanation about a predator in the wild. I did not know a bobcat could take down a deer