{"id":14967,"date":"2017-05-05T10:14:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=14967"},"modified":"2017-06-13T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T00:10:55","slug":"marylanders-reminded-to-keep-fawns-wild-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/05\/05\/marylanders-reminded-to-keep-fawns-wild-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Marylanders Reminded to Keep Fawns Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Removing Wild Animals is Dangerous, Illegal and Unnecessary<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7689\/17128253987_171a8e8a8f.jpg\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">With late spring being the prime birthing time for white-tailed deer in the state, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0reminds anyone who encounters a fawn to avoid disturbing it.\u00a0While young deer often appear to be orphaned, in most cases the doe is nearby protecting and feeding her offspring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">Too often, well-intentioned people find and remove fawns from the wild believing they are helping an orphaned animal.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemoving deer from the wild and keeping them in captivity is against the law,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/a>\u00a0Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cFurthermore, the unnatural conditions of life in captivity can lead to malnutrition, injury and stress at the hands of well-meaning captors. Wild animals that become accustomed to humans can pose health risks and become dangerous as they mature. Let&#8217;s keep Maryland&#8217;s wildlife wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newborn fawns have almost no natural odor and their spotted, reddish-brown coats help them blend into their surroundings. Fawns instinctively lie motionless when approached by potential predators. This seemingly helpless state is a behavioral adaptation that has helped white-tailed deer survive for ages. Despite this strategy, curious fawns will sometimes wander around new surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with questions on fawns or other young wild animals are encouraged to contact the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services\u00a0at 877-463-6497.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removing Wild Animals is Dangerous, Illegal and Unnecessary With late spring being the prime birthing time for white-tailed deer in the state, the\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0reminds anyone who encounters a fawn to avoid disturbing it.\u00a0While young deer often appear to be orphaned, in most cases the doe is nearby protecting and feeding her offspring.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/05\/05\/marylanders-reminded-to-keep-fawns-wild-4\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,13],"tags":[3059,3278,2945,3279],"class_list":["post-14967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-wildlife","tag-deer","tag-hiking","tag-paul-peditto","tag-u-s-department-of-agriculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15466,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions\/15466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}