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Fawn lying in the grass (Ardennes, Belgium)

Ablieger is a term from zoology . It describes young animals that protect themselves from predators in the first days of life by laying down and hiding ( lying down ) while they wait for the mother animal, in contrast to the successor type who follows the mother animal. The young deer or stags belong to the abyss, as do other ungulates and hares . Dikdiks and other animals show the slightly different behavior of laying down .

behavior

When lying down, the young animal actively moves away from the mother animal after suckling and hides in a protected place, where it waits motionless until it is called by the mother for the next feeding. In the case of twin births, both young animals lay down separately from each other.

A somewhat different, but often not always clearly distinguishable, behavior is laying down, in which the young animal follows the mother animal and is asked by the mother to lay down in a selected place. Here, too, the young animal remains motionless until the next feeding. Often the terms deposit and discard are used synonymously .

background

The escape behavior is still very limited in the young animals and they are not able to escape potential predators by escaping. A Ablieger for predators , however difficult to make out, especially in young animals, the scent glands, especially the mouth glands are still inactive, he passes no perceptible odor from. The young animal is well camouflaged thanks to the color of its coat, which is adapted to its surroundings . Predators are able to follow the mother animals through a scent trail and could come across the young animals, the distance between the mother animal and the young animal offers the latter additional protection.

Another reason is that young animals are not yet as persistent as the mother animal and thus conserve their strength.

Lost or deposited animals should never be touched by humans, otherwise the mother animal will no longer accept the young animal.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ http://www.world-of-animals.de/Tierlexikon/Tierart_Reh.html
  2. ↑ a b c d Keyword “lying down” In: Herder-Lexikon der Biologie. Spectrum Akademischer Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg 2003. ISBN 3-8274-0354-5
  3. ↑ a b Keyword “Filing” In: Herder-Lexikon der Biologie. Spectrum Akademischer Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg 2003. ISBN 3-8274-0354-5
  4. ↑ Summertime with red deer: The young and wild ones are coming! ( Memento from November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )