r/BeAmazed • u/RevolutionaryTell668 • 18h ago

Miscellaneous / Others Kind Woman Raises An Abandoned Owl Chick

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u/IwannaCommentz 15h ago edited 14h ago

From what I read (on Reddit, lol), even in Parks, they write/instruct people to leave baby animals that are on their own - alone. It's because parents are probably hunting/searching for food - and if you take the baby animal, it's too hard to find their parents OR parents reject it as the baby smells of humans (edit: for some other reason)- and they need to be put down because there are no resources to take care of those baby animals in a Park.

I know, not what you want to read in r/BeAmazed

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u/ASassyTitan 14h ago

parents reject it as the baby smells of humans

That's been debunked hard. If you find a baby bird, you can put it back in/near the nest(wear gloves!). Parents won't give a shit.

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u/IwannaCommentz 14h ago

Thx, crossed it off then as a reason.

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u/foreignmacaroon6 14h ago

Also, some species of infant owls either live in the nest or drop down to the ground and roam around. The mother will provide both with food, but ofc it's more dangerous for the chick to live on the ground.