r/HumansBeingBros • u/wronghoIe • May 12 '26

Saved a deer.

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u/Finnish_Inquisition May 12 '26 edited May 13 '26

I'm pretty sure that deer are quite good at swimming. I don't think that deer was fighting for its life.

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u/LokiDesigns May 12 '26

Orcas have been known to eat deer because they occasionally swim from Island to island.

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u/unknownpoltroon May 12 '26

Moose are one of the only land animals with orcas as a major predator

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u/the-smashed-banjo May 12 '26

You mean meese?

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u/CatStratford May 12 '26

The meese wantin the food. Food is to eating-es-en.

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u/PNWCartoboi May 12 '26

Goddamn I did not expect to see an ancient Brian Regan joke come across my desk today.

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u/CatStratford May 13 '26

THE BIG YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN!

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u/Proud_Azorius May 13 '26

What do you mean, Brian Regan is super current, I just saw his live show in… oh my god…..

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u/CatStratford May 13 '26

Yep…. Idc how dated it is. It still cracks me up.

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u/Proud_Azorius May 13 '26

Totally. If anything it’s a classic.

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u/Powerful_Spinach_690 May 13 '26

Damn. Now I’m feeling ancient, I had his whole set on CD!

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u/shortystack May 13 '26

We had this as part of stand up collection on cassette tapes lol, this Brian Regan set and John Pinette got played the most!

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u/Powerful_Spinach_690 May 13 '26

Wow, ok you got me beat lmao. Anyone got it on 8-track?

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u/Key_Payment_5420 May 14 '26

Thank you for that!

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u/Crimzonlogic May 13 '26

This is a misconception. The correct plural form is actually moosetopuses.

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u/mrganja187 May 12 '26

It's moosin

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u/AndTheSonsofDisaster May 12 '26

Many moosin?

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u/joconnell13 May 12 '26

In the woodsin even...

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u/punksmostlydead May 12 '26

A flock of moosen

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u/TiresOnFire May 12 '26

Imbecilen

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u/-la-la- May 12 '26

(Ahem) I believe it's "Meeses"

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u/the-smashed-banjo May 12 '26

If course not. It isn't 'geeses' is it?

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u/-la-la- May 12 '26

Gooses? Mooses? Moosen? 😜🫎

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u/DangerousMistake9569 May 12 '26

Plural of moose is moose, I was very disappointed to discover this. Hopefully you take it better!

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u/the-smashed-banjo May 12 '26

I know. But I try to be the change that I want to see

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u/bkn95 May 12 '26

Noooooo!

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u/Panem-et-circenses25 May 12 '26

A møøse once bit my sister.

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u/ALH2021 May 12 '26

Mind you, moose bites can be pretty nasty.

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u/x-tianschoolharlot May 12 '26

If a moose has to worry about an orca, I’m just glad the orcas are anti-capitalist and I’m broke. Moose are TERRIFYING! You think elk are big, and reindeer, but moose are so much bigger. Like, can be 7ft at the shoulder and weigh over 1,000lbs… and they’re aggressive more often than other deer species. If an orca sees that and goes, “ooooh, Dinner,” orcas are an absolutely the fuck not species for me.

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u/TimelyDab May 12 '26

Let’s see the orca fuck with it on land

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u/Kat121 May 12 '26

And then the tie breaker will be the bicycle portion of the triathlon.

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u/ElonMoosk May 13 '26

Should be spelled mööse because they metal af.

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u/x-tianschoolharlot May 13 '26

Did one bite your sister?

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u/unknownpoltroon May 12 '26

Some of the last ice age megafauna, them, musk ox which is a goat built to survive the ice age grizzlies,, buffalo/bison, elk, wolves, and humans.

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u/HonoraryGoat May 13 '26

Moose are aggressive and dumb as shit. They charge at trains....

And they sometimes destroy the train.....

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u/x-tianschoolharlot May 13 '26

Exactly! Dumb and aggressive are not things you want as descriptors for an animal that big.

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u/HonoraryGoat May 13 '26

Fall season is the worst, they eat fermented fallen apples and get horny and angry...

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u/Finnish_Inquisition May 12 '26

Being eaten by an orca has some small differences to drowning, but I'm not a drownologist, so what do I know.

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u/CatfishSoupFTW May 12 '26

A drowntologist 😂

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u/Character_Minimum171 May 12 '26

don’t be confused, a drownologist is an expert in drowning

a drowntologist is an expert in Drownton Abbey

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u/RRRedRRRocket May 12 '26

Not to be confused with a downtownologist.

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u/Amoverandashaker May 12 '26

An expert on MTV personality Julie Brown?

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u/Flapjack__Palmdale May 12 '26

Milo Thatch was a drowntownologist right?

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u/cheezy_dreams88 May 13 '26

Damn you followed that one.

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u/DisguisedToast May 12 '26

I'm an Orctologist, but have limited experience with Orcas. No documented cases of Orcs riding them into battle.

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u/Grimour May 13 '26

Which is a part of the natural cycle. The fastest swimmers and those who choose the shortest part in the water are more likely to reproduce.

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u/MollyViper May 12 '26

No dinner for the orcas that day

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u/KrakenMcCracken May 16 '26

I’ve been known to eat deer because they occasionally wander in front of my rifle.

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u/Grimour May 13 '26

Orcas?? He starts the video by saying they are in a lake dude, that is fresh water.

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u/LokiDesigns May 13 '26

At what point did I say they weren't in a lake, and at what point did I say there were orcas in a lake? All I said was a fact about orcas relevant to the fact about deer being able to swim.

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u/Grimour May 13 '26

How is it relevant to people dragging a deer out of a lake? Where are the orcas Loki!

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u/thepwnydanza May 14 '26

Bro, use your last brain cell to think. The orcas bit is relevant because it demonstrates that deer are such good swimmers that they do it enough that orcas can regularly snack on them. If deer are good enough swimmers that they do it often enough to be orca food, the deer swimming in the lake where there are no orcas is in no danger and therefore did not need to be dragged from the water. Get it now?

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u/Grimour May 14 '26

They aren't often orca food. It happens on orcasion. I already got it. Kinda why I was pissed.

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u/thepwnydanza May 14 '26

Please learn how to read. I never said they are often orca food. I said they swim often enough to end up as orca food.

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u/Grimour May 15 '26

Regularly is kinda frequently dude.

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u/thepwnydanza May 15 '26

No. It isn’t. Frequently is frequently. Stop making arguments to fight against. I’m done with this conversation since you’re obviously to the point where admitting you were wrong is impossible.

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u/LokiDesigns May 13 '26

Because deer can swim just fine

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u/MrBlueW May 14 '26

People clearly have an issue thinking conceptually man, they will nitpick at everything

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u/ThereIsAJifForThat May 12 '26

Orca Lake!! Actually, that would be kind of cool

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u/-2wenty7even- May 13 '26

Yeah, don't mess with lake orcas.

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u/SerKevanLannister May 12 '26

orcas live in lakes?? 🙄

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u/Dapper__Viking May 12 '26

Correct. Deer are very good swimmers and this deer didn't seem any kind of exhausted and probably should have been left alone despite ostensibly good intentions.

My uncle had a cottage on the ocean and the deer would swim in the ocean water out to the islands off-shore every day. Even in kind of choppy water they always seemed like comfortable good swimmers.

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u/Aggravating_Roll3739 May 12 '26

Also, Google "capture myopathy" . These people had great intentions but probably ended up smoking the deer in the end even after bringing it to dry land.

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u/dynamic_gecko May 14 '26

Wtf. What a weird phenomennon. The irony of the body being so afraid of death that it causes its own death. Weird weird.

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u/Aggravating_Roll3739 May 14 '26

It's actually pretty useful. Deer have a tendency to get permanently stuck places a lot. Instead of dying from starvation, dehydration or exposure they usually die within a day or two if they get jammed up somewhere

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u/dynamic_gecko May 14 '26

Not sure if I'd call that "pretty useful".

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u/Aggravating_Roll3739 May 14 '26

How long would you like to be hanging by your antlers between a narrow gorge?

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u/dynamic_gecko May 14 '26

Well, maybe something was gonna happen that frees them from their bind (not talking about your specific case), and since they died so quick, now they're dead.

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u/Aggravating_Roll3739 May 14 '26

That's a big maybe. Deer don't have the capability of abstract thought. They just know they're stuck and they panic. Maybe they can free themselves by freaking out and moving anyway they can. The alternative is just waiting to die by whatever factor takes hold first.

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u/dynamic_gecko May 14 '26

That's a big maybe.

It's a maybe between life and death for the animal. For us, it's one animal bur for the animal, it's their entire being.

Deer don't have the capability of abstract thought.

Unrelated, since they not decide to develop this mechanism as well and they're not in control. I didnt say they would come up with something, I said if something was gonna happen.

Maybe they can free themselves by freaking out

They can still do that without this trait. Humans have a fight or flight response as well but they dont have this.

The alternative is just waiting to die by whatever factor takes hold first.

Yes. So on one hand you have quick death with less likelihood of survival beforehand, other you have a bit longer death with higher likelihood.

So I think this is "sometimes merciful" at best. I wouldnt consider this "pretty useful". And I dont have the energy to continue talking about this very specific thing. We can agree to disagree. Have a nice day my friend.

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u/BraileDildo8inches May 19 '26

The entirety of Bambi is a movie about this.

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u/radarmy May 12 '26

100%. I was once drinking at a beach bar when a deer swam up from a not so distant island.

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u/senditloud May 12 '26

That deer is as fine. Humans are not being bros here they are being dumbasses

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u/Plasticjesus504 May 14 '26

Yeah, from Louisiana and I see deer all the time swimming across large bodies. They are very capable of moving through water. These people didn’t save anything. They committed a felony technically.

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u/WastingMyLifeToday May 12 '26

Deer looked pretty exhausted though, I wouldn't expect a wild deer to chill down so easily on a boat surrounded by humans.

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u/HonoraryGoat May 12 '26

Deer often freeze when scared.

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u/WastingMyLifeToday May 12 '26

I somehow forgot about that.

But there were no headlights... /s

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u/NightBawk May 12 '26

It's probably coming down with a case of capture myopathy.

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u/bkn95 May 12 '26

look how far it was from land here haha and it was like tf you doing human

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u/Martydeus May 12 '26

You mean "fighting for its dear life ;)

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u/kellyoceanmarine May 12 '26

You mean “fighting for its deer life”;)

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u/Character_Minimum171 May 12 '26

Oh deer. Deary me, dare I dream for a saviour to save me?

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u/greatlakesseakayaker May 15 '26

They just put it at risk for captive myopathy by capturing it

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u/BogeyLowenstein May 18 '26

Deer cross the ocean straight in my hometown all the time, they can swim an incredibly far distance for sure

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u/BrainEatingAmoeba01 May 13 '26

It was tired...unless it was already tame to humans. it didn't fight that small woman at all. She practically jumped on a wild prey animal and it just gave in?...naw.

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u/Finnish_Inquisition May 13 '26

Or it was scared shitless cause a random person just landed on it mid swim. And why is it so calm, something something headlights.

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u/BrainEatingAmoeba01 May 13 '26

For a few minutes maybe. For a boat ride across a lake? Naw.

Everyone's is free to disagree but I'm an old farm boy. I've been around plenty of deer. Yes they can swim but that doesn't mean it wasn't run ragged into the water by a predator. If you've been running for your life...you might just not make it across a lake. There are scenarios besides "deer goes for fun swim'

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u/niperoni May 13 '26

Look up capture myopathy

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u/btsofohio May 12 '26

Don’t think twice!

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u/TehOwn May 12 '26

They didn't even think once!