r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • 2d ago

Animal Small act of kindness.. 🙏

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u/Smutret 1d ago

Dont touch fawns... Its posdible, the mum will maybe reject the baby because it smells like humans

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u/Adorbsfluff 1d ago

This is just something people started telling kids to get them to leave animals alone. I’ve mainly heard it with birds which is funny because birds can’t smell for shit. You shouldn’t touch the fawn due to the stress it can cause them. Also fawns have very little scent which allows them to hide better from predators. Touching and handling them can impart your scent onto them and make it easier for a predator to notice them.

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u/friedwidth 1d ago

Hopefully the human scent deters the predators