Baby deer holds still as a chipmunk visits

Name: Baby deer holds still as a chipmunk visits
Uploaded: 2021-06-26T02:00:00Z
Duration: 8 min 49 s
Description: Lee lives in a cottage in the Canadian woods, and he's used to chipmunks. He's not used to finding a baby deer resting all alone right outside.

Lee lives in a cottage in the Canadian woods, and he's used to chipmunks. He's not used to finding a baby deer resting all alone right outside. more

Lee, a Korean man who left city life for a forest behind a lake, spends his days there with two chipmunk pals, Joony and Willy. The fawn is a white-tailed deer, still in her spotted coat, tucked in among the rocks. Lee has never seen a baby deer this close.

A young deer with white spots looks straight ahead from behind rocks and green leaves. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — Lee finds the baby deer resting alone among the rocks by his cottage.

Her mother is nowhere in sight. That's less worrying than it looks. A mother deer often leaves her fawn in a safe spot while she goes off to eat, then comes back. The baby's whole job is to stay still.

She's very good at her job. Lee tries to get her attention, and she doesn't budge. One viewer joked that she has decided she is a fallen leaf, and that nothing will change her mind, not even a man standing right beside her.

A young deer with white spots lies among moss-covered rocks and fallen leaves on the ground. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — The fawn keeps still among the mossy rocks, the way baby deer do while they wait.

Then Joony shows up out of nowhere. Lee didn't expect him, but the chipmunk takes a great interest in the fawn. He gives his tail a little wave, a small hello to the new face in the yard.

He does not rush it. Joony waits for quite a while, then works his way around the baby deer in a half circle, close and careful, as if he's checking that she's all right.

A fawn with a juvenile white-tailed deer coat resting among rocks in a forested area with an Eastern chipmunk nearby during autumn daytime. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — Lee lives in a cottage in the Canadian woods, and he's used to chipmunks.

And then he is gone, as quick as he came. The fawn doesn't move an inch. As far as she is concerned, she's still a fallen leaf.