A year-old deer was surprisingly uninjured after falling into a concrete manhole on a construction site in Aurora last week, but the confused critter needed humans’ help to escape the small enclosure.
Officers with Colorado Parks and Wildlife as well as workers at the construction site for the Stephen D. Hogan Parkway near South Picadilly Road and East Sixth Avenue worked together Friday to rescue the deer.
A video posted online by the state agency shows the deer standing at the bottom of the concrete structure and staring at a wildlife officer as she shot a tranquilizer dart into the animal’s rump.
The wildlife officers examined the deer and found that it was uninjured before the crews used ropes to pull the limp deer from the hole.
The deer later woke up and another video shows it sprinting into an open field at dusk.
Friday afternoon, wildlife officers responded to a yearling whitetail buck that found itself in a 10-foot deep man hole at a construction site for the Stephen D. Hogan freeway near S. Picadilly Rd. and 6th Ave.
The deer was tranquilized and then examined in the hole.
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After waking up, the deer was off back on its own, completing a happy ending to this wildlife rescue story.
— CPW NE Region (@CPW_NE)
