by Karen Williams
I saw this buck near Pine Creek, and as I took pictures of him I crept closer and closer until I stood about ten feet away to take this picture with my macro lens. As I watched him, amazed at my good luck at getting so close, I thought, "Do deer charge people? Maybe I shouldn't be standing quite so close." After which, I retreated to what I felt was a safer distance. Although deer are generally not aggressive, I certainly did not want to be charged by this buck and his antlers. In an interesting side note, in the 1970's a deer did attack some tourists, making deer statistically more risky than mountain lions in Zion, since there has never been a mountain lion attack in Zion National Park.
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