Watch this adorable real-life Bambi and Thumper play together

16 Aug, 2015 by Rachel Alexander

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The movie Bambi, featuring a deer and its animal friends, including a rabbit, Thumper, was not too far from reality. Those two animals are not predators of each other and so have an amicable relationship.

The Daily Mail reports on two of them frolicking together recently,

An adorable fawn and rabbit have been nicknamed Bambi and Thumper after they were spotted playing together in the Rocky Mountains.

A video shows the duo jumping around and chasing one another during what looked like a playful game of tag near the Lula W Dorsey Museum in Estes Park, Colorado.

YMCA of the Rockies shared the video on its Facebook page on Tuesday and it has since been watched more than 472,000 times.

Museum guide volunteers Steve and Vicky Johnsen shot the footage of the real-life Bambi and Thumper on August 6.

‘It just brightens everyone’s day when they watch it,’ YMCA of the Rockies spokeswoman Martha Sortland told ABC News. ‘No one had seen the deer and the rabbit playing around before and [Steve and Vicky] randomly captured it at the right moment.’

There are some parts of nature we will never be able to explain, but can just enjoy. God has created an incredible world. Watch the playful video below.

Rachel Alexander

Rachel Alexander is the editor of Intellectual Conservative. She is a senior editor at The Stream, and is a regular contributor to Townhall, the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research, and The Christian Post, and provides weekend news items for Right Wing News. She frequently appears on TV and news radio as a conservative commentator. She is a recovering attorney and former gun magazine editor. She previously served as a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arizona, corporate attorney for Go Daddy Software, and Special Assistant/Deputy County Attorney for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. As co-president of the UW Political Science Honor Society, she obtained degrees in Political Science and History from the University of Washington, followed by a law degree from Boston College and the University of Arizona. She was ranked by Right Wing News as one of the 50 Best Conservative Columnists from 2011-2017.