Bambi is a male deer in both the novel and film adaptation. Yet there are other changes between the novel and the film that you may find interesting as well. Let’s take an in-depth look at the world’s most famous deer (sorry, Rudolph ). As we mentioned, Bambi is a male deer. He’s destined to be a buck when he gets older. But how do we know this?

Ultimately, Bambi had a girl, which is the main character’s gender. There’s no way to know for sure until the birth of the baby girl. While Bambi was born a boy, he mates with a female, which is the opposite. Faline, a female, is the daughter of Ena, a female deer, and an unnamed bucks.