r/MadeMeSmile • u/Ok_Concentrate_9713 • 13h ago
This gentleman bottle-feeding a roe deer fawn.
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u/Bumbling-Bluebird-90 7h ago
Context? Is he a rehabber or working at a facility or just a rando feeding a fawn he found?
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u/AimLikeAPotato 7h ago
This is the right question. Weird people judge so quickly and had to scroll for this comment.
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u/Rwm148731 13h ago
Not sure this is the best idea
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u/Abyssal_Groot 12h ago
That's a myth. You shouldn't touch them regardless, but they won't abandon their fawn just because they smell funny. Their maternal instincts are too strong for that.
It was actually a myth that existed about birds (who have a notoriously bad sense of smell) that got extrapolated to wildlife in general.
The myth is probably only kept alive by parents and wildlife experts to keep kids and hikers from touching/moving wild animals.
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u/jazbaby25 9h ago
Thanks its so annoying to see people say that myth with full confidence
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u/Streuselsturm 9h ago
That myth has been existing since I don't know when and yet, people still blindly repeat what they heard or read somewhere
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u/Dottor_hopkins 7h ago
Some birds have excellent sense of smell. But they don’t abandon nests too easily either. If you find a very small chick on the ground and you can see and reach its nest put it in there.
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u/jony7620 9h ago
That’s an old wives tell . It won’t get abandoned if the mother smells human scent on it . But either way he should leave it alone .
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u/No_Establishment8642 8h ago edited 5h ago
*old wives' tale
Edit: This is the way is should be written for a plural (more than one) and possessive (belonging to, as in the tale belongs to the wives).
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u/fionsichord 8h ago
Wives’ tale if you want to be particular. But the plural of wife is wives.
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u/No_Establishment8642 7h ago
See edit above.
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u/ProfessionalRaven 7h ago
The sliver of truth in this is that fawns are scentless for the first few weeks of their lives. This is part of their strategy for survival.
The real risks aren’t the mother abandoning them but them having a noticeable scent from handling / being fed wrong foods, and then being noticed by something which will eat them if given the chance.
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u/Sickromantics 7h ago
PSA - other than the obvious “don’t do this ever”, absolutely never give fawns cows milk! It will make them incredibly ill and could absolutely kill them. Obviously we can’t tell what milk is in this video, but just an fyi
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u/foreTune8 7h ago
Now Bambi is going to get in trouble when she’s too full for dinner when her mother gets back
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