Leave those baby wild animals alone!
What do you do when you are in the outdoors and you found, which you think is, an abandoned wild baby animal. Our good-hearted efforts to save a wild animal may actually lessen its chances of survival. Well, it’s best to leave them in their natural habitat, untouched and only watch from a distance to see if the mother returns. The mother maybe watching from a distance waiting for you to leave, she may be returning with food or she flat out left the baby because it has a health issue. It’s likely that if you decide to take the baby it will not survive, even if it is taken to a wildlife reserve. So if you decide to rescue it, you are supposed to transport it to a licensed wildlife rehabilitator within 24 hours. Feeding a baby wild animal is challenging: when and how much do you feed a baby bird, rabbit, squirrel, raccoon or fawn. The time commitment is considerable. Several problems present themselves when dealing with wild baby animals: they can become too comfortable with humans and are at risk of predation when returned to the wild, the commitment time can be considerable, and relocation to a new territory is a threat to the resident animals which in turn decreases the survival rate of the newcomer.
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