Disney's Bambi

Bambi is an old Disney film that was based off of the book by Felix Salten. This movie is about a young white-tailed deer named Bambi, and his journey through life from birth to his first love. It is considered to be an overly sweet yet tragic tale. In America, it can be said that most people have watched Bambi.
This is considered an incredibly influential film in way of environment conservation and wild animal rights, as it documents forest fires and the orphaning of a fawn from meat poaching. These days it's considered one of the saddest animated films, and many a person has admitted that their parents taught them about the concept of death by making them watch this film. The film contains many animals, as it takes place in a forest. Surprisingly for an animal film, it doesn't have many predators. Its herbivore vs carnivore concept is also slim, being narrowed down to the "artificial" nature of Man and his domesticated, vicious dogs. There are no wolves, coyotes, cougars, or bears in this film. No carnivores that normally attack deer. Only man. Though this is the nature of many wilderness areas in North America due to the eradication of most natural predators. It features many other smaller animals, including skunks and rabbits. It is possible that this film helped influence people away from hunting, leading to a strong focus on farm meats to the point of taboo, where deer and other previously common wild meats (like quail and duck) were considered not just unethical (and sometimes not that), but plain, flat out gross. Where farmed animals were preferred, and even moreso if they were not wild-farmed animals (like the semi-domesticated venison we have today). 
Due to the influence of Bambi, many people think of deer when they hear this name. It's not possible to deassociate deer from this name or vice-versa at this time. Bambi is thought to be a boy's name due to the influence of this film. Or at least in the 90s, before people had the internet to look up baby names and they had to rely on word of mouth, baby name books, and non/fictional sources of it being a girl's name, as it was originally. Bambi was a well-known girl's name back in the time the movie was made, but in modern times it is mostly attributed to deer.
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