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Real-life Bambi and Thumper? Deer and rabbit play in viral video

By Samantha Jordan
Aug 12, 2015

Here's a friendship made in Disney heaven.

A video posted online shows a deer and rabbit playing like besties outside the Lula W. Dorsey Museum at the YMCA of the Rockies in Colorado.

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9News.com reports that 'Bambi' and 'Thumper,' as they've been named by viewers after the lovable characters in the Disney film "Bambi", spent at least a half an hour last week frolicking, bumping noses and hopping around in the sun. 

Some museum staffers say that the BFF's play nearly every day.

You win today, internet: this is cuteness overload.

They're real! Picture proof snapped at YMCA of the Rockies at Estes Park. It shows the young deer and a rabbit getting to know each other.

Posted by 7News and TheDenverChannel.com on Tuesday, August 11, 2015

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