MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is urging people to leave deer fawns alone.
Biologists say most deer fawns are born in late May and the first and second weeks of June.
When first born, fawns have no natural defenses beyond being hidden by their mothers and keeping still.
People who spot a fawn often assume it is helpless, lost or its needs to be rescued because it has been abandoned by its mother. The mother is usually nearby and will return.
Biologists say that well-intentioned people who pick fawns up and take them from where they were hiding will separate it from its mother, “and it usually results in a sad ending for the animal.”
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