Sensitive content! I did not expect to see this when I checked a couple cameras this morning. While I’ve found several old mountain lion kills based on the surrounding evidence, I’ve never seen anything that I suspected was a bobcat kill. This trail cam capture surprised me because I was not expecting anything like this would be captured by the trail cams, even after years of watching thousands of trail cam videos of deer and other wildlife doing their thing. I’ve reluctantly watched it a few times because while nature is beautiful, she is also brutal. The fawn and her mother are going about their daily business, eating, drinking water… Then in seconds, for the fawn, death appears in the form of a bobcat. Seemingly out of nowhere. Despite our big brain and intelligence, we humans are no different than the fawn. Death is the great equalizer, it can strike us anywhere, anytime.
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An old friend of mine used to hike the desert with me. We would sit in the silent awe of those painted spires and feel the harshness and harmony of it all flowing through us. Your amazing video captures the message from Carlos Castaneda in the Don Juan series: use death as an advisor and live your life fully now. Love
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Yes, I was thinking exactly of this conversation between Don Juan and Carlos when I saw this scene unfold on the video. Thank you for your words…
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It is such an evocative three seconds…mind if I wonder aloud? There is a millisecond after the bobcat rushes in. For a flash it looks like the doe tries to thwart the hunter from taking her young. She then of course pivots and escapes. And here is where I broke. I felt a mother’s despair for the doe. Trying to avoid assigning human feelings to her species. Nevertheless we learn deep lessons from the actors in the nonhuman realm. How to accept the great equalizer as you say, and how to care/love/nurture anyway. Nothing about loving is futile.
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