Roe deer deer Bambi (the titular character of the book "Bambi, A Life in the Woods" (1923) and its sequel "Bambi's Children" (1939), by Felix Salten) is originally a roe deer. When the story was adapted into the animated feature film "Bambi" (1942), by the Walt Disney Studios, Bambi was changed to a mule deer, and accordingly, the setting was changed to a North American wilderness. These changes made Bambi a deer species more familiar to mainstream US viewers. Roe deer The European roe deer ("Capreolus capreolus"), also known as the western roe deer, "chevreuil", or simply roe deer or roe, is
The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence: A Novel () is a 1923 novel written by Felix Salten. It is best known today for partly inspiring (and even mentioned in) the 1959 Walt Disney Pictures film, "The Shaggy Dog", as well as a sequel and remakes. The novel was first translated into English in 1930 by Huntley Paterson, and the translation has illustrations by Kurt Wiese. "The Hound of Florence" is an adventure story for young readers, set in early eighteenth-century Austria and Italy. The adolescent Lukas Grassi has lost his parents and lives in Vienna in great poverty,