The Last One
Tom Satre spoke to interviewers and said, “The last one was in real trouble…I think he was the biggest of the four. He couldn’t get the water off him. I massaged him, he was shaking and was very hypothermic, I think.” The last one needed assistance and had to be wheel-burrowed to land. However, the deer could not stand up straight and was very wobbly.
What Happened?
Riley Woodford, an Alaska Department of Fish & Game worker may have been chased off by predators and experienced “adolescent dispersal” or was looking for food. He claims that deer always seem to be “able to ramp up body heat…Like in the winter, they’ll just ramp up their metabolism. A deer could, however, just become completely exhausted.” He says wild animals should not be rescued except for desperate times like this because it could turn out to be a threat to the rescuer as well.