I'm glad the deer got away, but the lion was doing what her instincts told her to do, and that was hunt and stalk and kill. Fortunately the lioness wasn't all that hungry, or the deer would have been killed right away.

While I would like to think that having deer to breakfast would be fun and sweet and safe, I agree with comment #68 and think that it's safer for everybody including the animals not to place food in such close proximity to humans - it desensitizes the animals to danger from humans and causes humans to think they are "tame". Wild animals are not tame - they are WILD and they need to stay wild for their own protection - and ours.

As Tabstar pointed out in comment #68, many people feed bears too, and most of us have seen articles about how dangerous THAT can be....bears sometimes have to be put down because they associate food with humans and if you don't feed them, they get mad and hurt you...and alligators (especially those that have been hand-fed) have been known to eat dogs and humans (all sizes).

Humans can be food to carnivores. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking you're safe because you're human, because you could be dinner on that creature's menu. And the size of the human means nothing - I have a video of an alligator who was caught and cut open and a part of a man was found inside, from the top of the thigh down, including the foot, and studies dedeuced that the man was approximately 6/2" tall when eaten. So don't think you're safe around critters.

Deer are generally perceived to be gentle and calm in temperament, but have you ever seen deer in mating season? Not so! They can be quite fierce, so stay out of trouble and stay away from deer in the wild, unless you're hunting them, of course.

Love ya, mean it!