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Young spotted fawns are usually hidden by their mothers in dense 

 clumps of grass (see Fig. 63) or in thickets of brush. When surprised 

 or pursued, such fawns often seek to escape detection by crouching 

 motionless in their grassy beds with necks outstretched (see Fig. 70). 

 When undisturbed in their beds, spotted fawns are nearly always found 

 curled up, this being their normal posture in repose. 



In Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park on July 1, 1933, I found 

 a pair of spotted fawns, known to be six days old, hiding near our camp. 

 One of the fawns when first found was bedded down in the narrow 



Fig. 70. Wlicn pur.sucd, the spotted fawns often seek 

 to escape detection by hiding with neck outstretched in 

 the open grassy meadows. Yosemite, July 10, 1928. Mus. 

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crack of a granite boulder. This crack was ten in dies wide and three 

 feet deep, being closed at both ends, and had a smooth floor covered with 

 pine needles. I marveled that so young a fawn could get into and out 

 of the narrow crack by itself, but such was the case. I watched it, 

 and after the mother returned from her breakfast in the meadow, 

 she called them, facing first one and then the other fawn, to her to 

 nurse, the fawns being hidden separately some sixty feet apart. After 



