{"id":1160889,"date":"2021-12-27T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160889"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:08:59","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-mother-deer-sacrificing-herself-for-her-offspring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-mother-deer-sacrificing-herself-for-her-offspring\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Mother Deer Sacrificing Herself For Her Offspring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-mother-deer-sacrificing-herself-for-her-offspring%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160889&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bobby.simmons.98499\/posts\/2186765308143689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a female deer giving herself over to cheetahs to save her offspring from them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The photographer who took the picture has called the viral story \u201ccomplete fiction\u201d and refuted that it caused her to suffer depression. It shows a mother cheetah and her cubs just before the mother cheetah killed an impala.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EMOTIONALANDMOTIVATIONALQUOTES\/posts\/447073533459434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/a> is an impala surrounded by three cheetahs, one of which appears to be biting the impala\u2019s neck. A cheetah\u2019s diet consists of impalas and other game animals, according to the Smithsonian\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/animals\/news\/why-do-cheetahs-have-spots-and-other-cheetah-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Zoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis photo won the award for best photo of the decade and led the photographer into depression,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prince.e.mo1\/posts\/10158100406091556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleges<\/a> the post\u2019s caption. \u201cThe cheetahs chased a mother deer and her two fawns (baby deer). The mother could have easily out run cheetahs but instead she offered herself to cheetahs so her young ones could manage to run to safety. In this picture she is seen looking at her babies running safely as she is about to be torn to pieces\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo is part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonbuttigieg.com\/cheetahkill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series<\/a> taken in Kenya in September 2013 by Finland-based photographer Alison Buttigieg and can be seen on her photography website. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gepardi\/posts\/10212438608579521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2013 Facebook post<\/a>, Buttigieg refuted the viral story being circulated online about her photo, calling it \u201ccomplete fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Stranglehold photo went viral with a completely ridiculous fake story accompanying it, and implications I fell into depression after I took it (seriously who comes up with this crap?!?) \u2013 not to mention the gross copyright violations,\u201d she wrote in the Facebook post, in part. \u201cSensationalism at its best \u2013 complete fiction so that people get more likes on their page.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/09\/02\/fact-check-animals-escape-turtle-back-zoo-hurricane-ida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Animals Escape From A New Jersey Zoo When Remnants Of Hurricane Ida Passed Through?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonbuttigieg.com\/cheetahkill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on her website<\/a> that the cheetah holding the impala\u2019s neck in the photo was the other cats\u2019 mother and that it was teaching them how to kill prey at the time. The photographer wrote that the impala was \u201cprobably in shock and thus paralysed with fear,\u201d not mentioning anything about it sacrificing itself for its offspring. The mother cheetah ended up killing the impala seen in the photo, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonbuttigieg.com\/cheetahkill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buttigieg\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The photo, titled \u201cThe Stranglehold,\u201d was honored as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sipacontest.com\/gallery\/photo\/86809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remarkable Artwork<\/a>\u201d in 2016 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sipacontest.com\/gallery\/2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Siena International Photo Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a female deer giving herself over to cheetahs to save her offspring from them.Verdict: False The photographer who took the picture has called &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}