Animating Bambi

Bambi was one of the earliest animated films made from Disney studio. To make Bambi more realistic, the artists and the animators did a lot of research.

Bambi, 1942

The animators visited the Los Angeles Zoo and Disney set up a small zoo at the studio with animals such as rabbits, ducks, owls, and skunks, and a pair of fawns named Bambi and Faline so that the artists could see first-hand the movement of these animals. (Wikipedia)