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It started out as an ordinary day for Kenora, Ont., resident Liana Berezowski, who was out for her daily run when she noticed a deer and a fawn.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just gave [the deer] a little wave because they’re actually local to our neighbourhood,\u201d Berezowski told CBC News. \u201cI kept running and then, probably about 100 metres on, I just got the feeling and looked over my shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw the fawn and the doe both following me and running after me.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Kenora residents are used to seeing deer, as the city has a high population of the animals, it’s rare for them to run after humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not unheard of, but it’s certainly not usual,\u201d said Brian McLaren, associate professor in natural resources management at Lakehead University.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDeer with young fawns will be protective and, for that reason, secretive and timid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom and baby ‘kind of having fun’<\/p>\n
Berezowski was able to capture this extraordinary moment on video, as the deer appeared to be running with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was that initial, \u2018Oh, am I in any trouble here?\u2019 And then quickly was like, \u2018Oh, no, they’re just kind of having fun.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
But are deer potentially dangerous in their interactions with humans?\u00a0<\/p>\n
McLaren doesn\u2019t think so.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes the prime-age males carry these large antlers and they’ll look a little threatening,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I have never heard of anybody being treed by a white-tailed deer.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Berezowski, the experience was more fun than scary. She said she “felt like Snow White.”<\/p>\n
“When I realized that the fawn was between me and mom, I was less concerned because I figured that mama would be the one that would be aggressive and probably wouldn’t let her fawn get so close to me if she was worried.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-786321","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\/786321","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=786321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}