r/oddlysatisfying • u/CommercialBox4175 • 3d ago

The Way This Deer Skips Down The Street

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u/Small_Tax_9432 3d ago

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u/Geoclasm 3d ago

yep. i heard this in my head.

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u/kind_one1 3d ago

Yes! This would have driven me nuts!

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u/bojangles-AOK 3d ago

Hops

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u/Simpanzee0123 3d ago

I prefer "prance".

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u/CausticSofa 3d ago

Pronking

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u/DryStatistician7055 3d ago

Does anyone know why he is hopping like that?

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u/Mr_beeps 3d ago

Likely stotting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting

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u/littlelorax 3d ago

I'd always heard it as pronking. Lo and behold, your link says that it is an alternative term!

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u/syds 3d ago

dont eat me

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u/DryStatistician7055 3d ago

Thanks for this.

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u/evasandor 3d ago

It’s called “stotting” and it’s done to show off!

As in “heyyy predators, look how agile I am, so don’t waste your precious energy chasing me”

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u/thehermit14 3d ago

I'm looking this up. Cheers. Every day is a schoolday.

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u/iggycat 3d ago

It’s called pronging or stotting. It can be defensive, a warning to the herd or a show of fitness. Despite knowing this, when I see a deer or alpaca doing this, I always think they are just showing off and being silly.

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u/Classic_Button777 3d ago

Probably because his wings aren't working

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u/user_name-is-taken 3d ago

He just won the lottery

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u/Few_Number_8528 3d ago

because it's a friday.

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u/MatterTechnical4911 3d ago

Snow day. No work or school. Who wouldn't be happy?

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u/MoistStub 3d ago

Butthole problems, most likely

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u/mofugly13 3d ago

I hunt deer. That's how deer at full tilt run.

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u/undeadsasquatch 3d ago

That's just how they run.

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 3d ago

If there was a loving god out there somewhere, this animal would be making a comical "BOING!" noise as it hopped.

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u/Klotzster 3d ago

Prancer

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u/Chemical_Physics_889 3d ago

Oddly horrifying laugh

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u/Givemeabreak_L_Lou 1d ago

Same bruh I came to the comments hoping I wasn’t the only one who heard that nightmare fuel.

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u/Guillotine-Wit 3d ago

I hear *Boing!* noises every damn time.

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u/airfryerfuntime 3d ago

What's with the spooky laugh?

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u/MoistStub 3d ago

Idk why no one is talking about it. That was a witch cackle if I've ever heard one.

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u/ComplexStress9503 3d ago

BoInG bOiNg BoInG 🦌

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u/3penniesfmpoverty 3d ago

right down Santa claus lane

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u/Chaciydah 3d ago

I feel like this is the equivalent of a human skipping down the sidewalk singing a jaunty tune, or a bunny doing binky hops just for fun and joy.

It could also be a behavioral predator-advertent display but I prefer to think he’s just a bouncy boi.

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u/MarionberryPlus8474 3d ago

It's Prancer!

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u/Routine_Gazelle_9104 3d ago

That’s prancer.

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u/Practical_County_501 3d ago

Hes late santa left without him

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u/Low_Ad_1453 3d ago

It's clearly sproinking

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u/thehermit14 3d ago

Oddly, that's satisfying.

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u/SummerWinter624 3d ago

“Thought it was a deer huh…nope! It was me”

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u/DFParker78 3d ago

I had a stray cat outside my house that ran like this.

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u/MrSquigglyPub3s 3d ago

That deer has evil laugh

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u/Hambulance 2d ago

I thought it was a donkey and now I wish it was a donkey

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u/GlitteringSynapse 2d ago

🎶Dashing through the snow…🎶

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u/blueplate7 1d ago

I'm hearing the Pepi le Pew hopping music as I watch this

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u/ThinNeighborhood2276 3d ago

So graceful! It's like it's dancing.

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u/shahmalik804 3d ago

Where did he lose Santa and 7 other brothers?)

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u/MidnightNo1766 3d ago

Is there another way that deer run?

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u/Glittercorn111 3d ago

Wait, I did not know animals did this in real life.

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u/lightyagamisum 2d ago

Hell yeah!

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u/2020moi1979 2d ago

Raised by a rabbit

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u/TheSingingRonin 1d ago

Majestic as fuck

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u/Artimusjones88 18h ago

He is bounding. I just listened to a podcast on hopping and other forms of mammalian locomotion.

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u/m945050 15h ago

It could be an anti slip tactic used on slick surfaces. Trying to move four legs separately is twice as bad as attempting to move two legs on ice.

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u/_DettaVen_ 6h ago

Flabbergasted. Stunned,  even

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u/Double-Efficiency538 2h ago

Hey, you know Biff?

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u/Common-Project3311 3d ago

Never knew they bounced,

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u/Shoddy-Cauliflower95 3d ago

Just like Bumbles

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u/Yourcarsmells 3d ago

It is clearly a white-tail but ive seen this often with mule deer.

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u/GoldberryoTulgeyWood 3d ago

Probably keeps it from slipping