The Fawn and the Mountain Lion

A family of deer needs fresh water but faces a great danger...

The Fawn and the Mountain Lion was produced by Squideo from an idea and a script by Lisa Bortolotti, a philosopher at the University of Birmingham. The video is part of EPIC, a project on Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare, funded by Wellcome.

If you don't have access to YouTube, you can watch the video here.

Two young people are climbing and a campsite can be seen in the background

A boy is carrying wood and a girl is talking to him at a campsite.

Go to the Visitor Centre to find some sources on epistemic injustice. There are also some brief talks by experts on the topic in the Seminar Room.

Nature facts

Deer live in groups called herds and mate in the fall. Females and the young live separated from males for most of the year.
Mountain lions eat meat wherever and whenever they find it but 75% of their diet consists of deer! As in our story, mountain lions pounce on their prey or try to knock them over. Then mountain lions suffocate their prey or break their necks. It takes a lion 5 to 10 days to eat all the meat of a deer!

Inspiration

There is an Aesop's fable called The Stag and the Fawn. The stag scares the rest of the herd with his stamping and bellowing but is terrified by the hound.
Aesop's story is about courage and cowardice and our story is about listening to each other, but both stories invite us to reflect on power relations in close groups.