{"id":196749,"date":"2026-01-13T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/video-shows-tiny-deer-taking-on-a-massive-rhino-at-a-polish-zoo-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:28:57","slug":"video-shows-tiny-deer-taking-on-a-massive-rhino-at-a-polish-zoo-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/video-shows-tiny-deer-taking-on-a-massive-rhino-at-a-polish-zoo-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows tiny deer taking on a massive rhino at a Polish zoo &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A true David and Goliath story happened earlier this month at a Polish zoo when a tiny muntjac deer took on a massive 1.7 ton Indian rhino and \u2013 against all odds \u2013 seemingly won.<br \/>The video was filmed in the Wroclaw Zoo in Wroclaw, some 190 miles west of the country&#8217;s capital, Warsaw. Zookeepers said in a <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1165604435779780\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Facebook post on Jan. 8<\/a> that the small muntjac deer was defending its mate and that the large rhino named Marusia was a gentle giant with \u201cangelic patience.\u201d<br \/>\u201cSomeone probably forgot to look in the mirror this morning,\u201d the zoo said, talking about the tiny deer. \u201cWho would have thought that such a warrior sleeps in this tiny body?\u201d<br \/>In the video, the little deer is seen headbutting the rhino, who stands its ground before chasing the deer around the enclosure they share. In a <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1510757146699308\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Facebook post on Jan. 10<\/a>, the zoo called the rhino and deer the \u201cmost famous duo on the Internet at the moment.\u201d<br \/>See the video below.<br \/><em>Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxONFo0elhuU2wxb25oOFVUWW9GYnU1ZjV0VnRwWGk0cWhEVXhaVE00TlVlTXNrM1dpQXYxTlo0WEROT19wQWdHZW1pUWNSV3ZPalI3MnVjeV9SV1BXVkR2NVZHdFRUVEZDVHdkMVhScERIVmJFNE12TVUyQUNTX1BvZXVpdjJKejk4Ql9jc3RxR1RRbjRDRVZVRmY1UTE?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A true David and Goliath story happened earlier this month at a Polish zoo when a tiny muntjac deer took on a massive 1.7 ton Indian rhino and \u2013 against all odds \u2013 seemingly won.The video was filmed in the Wroclaw Zoo in Wroclaw, some 190 miles west of the country&#8217;s capital, Warsaw. Zookeepers said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}