

Believing that he really is hearing his mother's voice and that she is still alive, he goes out onto the meadow, the place from which her voice was coming from. There, he hears his mother's voice call him and sees her once again as he nuzzles her lovingly and she assures him that she will always be with him.Įven when his dream fades away, Bambi continues to hear her voice saying "I'm here," which confuses him. He finds himself in a shiny golden meadow filled with butterflies.

An argument erupts when Faline and Bambi doubt the validity of the story but is cut short by Ronno's mother calling for her son.Īs his friends disperse, Bambi is left alone to sleep under a tree and wait for the Great Prince to find him and take him home. He tries to impress Bambi and his friends by telling a story about an encounter with Man where Man tried to lure Ronno using a deer call but Ronno attacked Man instead. The celebration of the arrival of spring is cut short when young Ronno obnoxiously interrupts and scares away the groundhog. The groundhog, upon not seeing his shadow, declares that spring has begun, much to the joy of all around. There, they see other friends of theirs such as Faline and Friend Owl. Sometime later, Bambi, who still lives with the Great Prince for the time being, meets up with his friends Thumper, Flower, and Thumper's sisters, and the seven go together to see the groundhog as he makes his prediction about the future weather. Prioritizing his duties as the Great Prince over being a father, the Great Prince asks Friend Owl to find a doe to raise Bambi, which Friend Owl promises to do by spring. Will he be brave enough to face the danger of the hunting dogs, and will he be able to bond enough with his father that he isn't sent away to live with someone else?įawn Bambi wanders through the forest searching for his mother, not realizing that she has been killed by Man and only learning this truth when he is found by his father, the Great Prince of the Forest, who takes his son back home with him.


After an embarrassing moment of fear in the face of grave danger, Bambi decides that he needs to be brave to impress his dad.
