Deer are commonly found on mountains and forests but they could now be found in some urban areas because our territories have stretched into theirs. Concerning that, it’s not surprising that we could sometimes find random deer or two around public areas, perhaps even at our lawns.
This man happened to pass by two lost fawns in the middle of the road.
A logger randomly passed by two baby deer on the road while he was driving a huge truck with a truckload of logs. The fawns were just lying on the ground, separated by a couple of feet. The man carefully approached the first one to try to get a closer look at it.
The baby deer just stared at the man as the man continued to get closer to him. The man then held a finger close to the fawn’s face, expecting some response. However, the deer remained idle on the ground.
When he turned his back, he didn’t realize that the first deer was following him.
As the logger got no response from the first fawn, he decided to move toward the other.
He continued to move forward with his camera and tried to examine the second deer. It was not until the man squatted and realized that the baby deer that he just left behind started following him. He was just surprised that the fawn was in front of him.
In his shock, he repeatedly said, “That was hilarious” when the deer kept sniffing his pant legs. The moment was just pure wholesome.
The man tried to slowly move back to see how the deer would react. As expected, the deer started moving towards him. It was funny that the baby deer thought that the man was his mother. The deer just kept himself beside the man, thinking that the man will protect him, especially after being startled by the truck’s exhaust. You could just see the look on her face as the deer repositioned himself in front of the man.
The man could not possibly keep the baby deer and decided to ensure they were safe first before leaving.
He finished examining the two baby deer and found no wounds or injuries, but he had to put them in a safe place first before he went back into his truck. Adorable as the deer was, the man knew that he could not just snatch the baby deer away from there.
Instead, he lured the baby deer towards the shrubs to keep him safe. He didn’t touch them just in case the mother came back.
Why fawns are sometimes left on the roadside unattended.
After a doe gives birth to her fawns, she would nurse it for a while then leave them alone to forage for food; this is probably the case for these two. Because of the fawn’s red coat with white spots, it gives them a natural camouflage to be left unnoticed by predators.
The fawns will just stay in the same spot until their mother comes back.
Thankfully, the man was smart enough to not to take them far away as the mother could be possibly watching them from behind the bushes. Usually, the mom would check the fawns at night and immediately take them to a safe place before feeding them.
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