{"id":664952,"date":"2026-05-12T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:22:09","slug":"stumbling-deer-appears-drunk-too-many-forest-aperitifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664952\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumbling deer appears &#8216;drunk&#8217; too many &#8216;forest aperitifs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on May. 12, 2026, 2:51 PM<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re most likely to come across &#8216;drunk&#8217; animals in spring.<\/p>\n<p>Spring break isn\u2019t just for people: Every year animals get in on the fun, and sometimes, we catch glimpses of it on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The latest installment comes from eastern France, where a deer was recently seen twirling, wobbling, and falling over.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2222526441886892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">viral video<\/a>, which was shared on Facebook by enforcement officials last week, said the deer had likely consumed fermented fruit and was exhibiting signs of intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>Officials took the opportunity to remind the public to be mindful of drunken animals this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe slow down, we anticipate, we avoid car accidents, and we double the vigilance in a wooded area,\u201d reads part of the Facebook post caption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Bambi overdoes it on forest aperitif[s], it might not be the time to drive like you own the road, no?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on May. 12, 2026, 2:51 PM You&#8217;re most likely to come across &#8216;drunk&#8217; animals in spring. Spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-664952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}