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Disney has been making what amounts to the same animated feature for more than 60 years. In this "classic," an innocent creature, often an orphan (1942's Bambi, 1999's Tarzan), is abandoned in the wilderness, adopted by a sympathetic guardian (sometimes of another species), and acquires a wise and funny sidekick who guides him through adolescent trials to heroic manhood. Typically, these conclude in combat with an older male representing traditional ways...
...name I remember as English Poets of the 17th Century, Not Including Any Poet You've Ever Heard Of. In any case, it is definitely not true that I used to think Beowulf was a story about a wolf--a sort of companion piece to The Lion King or Bambi...
Because of the dino's size (only 3 ft. from its nose to the tip of its spindly tail), the Linsters called it Bambi, a name now formalized as Bambiraptor feinbergi, with a bow to the family that bought the specimen for the museum. But there is nothing deerlike about it. A kin of the ferocious velociraptors of Jurassic Park fame and more distantly of mighty T. rex, Bambi is a type of dromeosaur, small, upright-walking meat eaters that lived during the late Cretaceous period...
Like its discoverer, Bambi was a juvenile, about 75% of adult size. It had a large brain, a birdlike wishbone and sternum, and winglike arms. These were so long, says University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham, that the dinosaur "would have tripped over them" if they had hung down as it almost (but not quite) flew across the prehistoric landscape...
DIED. MARC DAVIS, 86, cartoonist who designed Tinker Bell and Bambi; in Los Angeles. An animator for Disney, he also helped dream up such theme-park rides as Pirates of the Caribbean...