Wounded Deer on trail camera – Warning Graphic !!!!

I almost hate to post this because of how sad it is to see. A friend of mine sent this to me and we got in a debate over what could have caused the injury and what the chances are for the deer to survive. I know they are incredibly tough animals but given the severity of the injury I don’t see a way this deer could possibly survive. My buddy thinks the injury was possibly caused by a Mountain Lion. I really don’t think a Mountain lion could do this much damage and have the deer escape from it. I think its possibly the injury may have been caused by being caught in farm harvest equipment. I’ve seen a few different picture of deer caught in a farm machinery and think this injury may be caused by that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKhip2fS3C0

Whoa. That is graphic. I don’t think its a predator attack. The wound is too “cleanly” cut from the hide for that. I would say agriculture equipment too. Amazing that deer can still walk around like it is.

Dandy buck too.

Combine I’m guessing. That has to be a dead deer (I hope for his sake).

i saw that on youtube and was wondering if its from a fence

AnotherFisherman wrote:

Combine I’m guessing. That has to be a dead deer (I hope for his sake).

I would agree, looks like he may have been bedded down in a cornfield when a combine came upon him. Graphic for sure.

Wonder if the driver of the combine watched him run off and how he/she reacted?

The strange thing is that it seems to be moving OK. I would guess that infection would end up setting in at some point. I hope some hunter takes this great deer and takes it out of what is likely some pain and suffering.

Ish. Incredible that it made it that long.

I saw this on Youtube too. I suppose now peta will want to sue farmers and combine manufacturers, eh?

Tom Sawvell wrote:

I saw this on Youtube too. I suppose now peta will want to sue farmers and combine manufacturers, eh?

PETA – Would that be the People Eating Tasty Animals? Only PETA group I’m aware of.

That deer won’t make it long , that is one huge rip ! Amazing it is even walking !

I don’t have a weak stomach but that made me a little queasy.I hope someone puts him down before he suffers more than he already has.

Oh man saw the picture. Thought that was bad then I watched the video. Now I wish I hadn’t.

I’m constantly amazed at how tough animals are. If anything close to that happened to a person they would be long gone within minutes.

Deer run into things fast.
I’ll bet some stationary object, like fence.

Pretty neat.

I don’t think combines cut like that, a corn chopper might have the blades to do that, something like https://www.claasofamerica.com/product/forage-harvesters/channel/RU450

The driver would likely not even see the deer until it was behind the machine

PETA will be lobbying for deer guards on farm equipment.

That big of hole in an animal there should be blood running down the side of his body which makes it hard to believe this video

Fake.

Well done, but still fake (at least I hope) lol

Flesh eating bacteria, rare but it’s out there I believe.

This year I’m going with a F’in zombie deer. Why, bc this year that’s why.

Boone wrote:

That big of hole in an animal there should be blood running down the side of his body which makes it hard to believe this video

CGI has certainly improved quite a bit in the last few years, but this imagery looks beyond even that capability.

Did you see the exposed shoulder blade?