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A: Leave it alone. Adult female animals often leave their young hidden to go to feed. The young are protected by camouflage and their lack of smell. You are going to do more harm to the young animal if you pick it up or bother it. You may separate it from its mother or draw predators to it.
– Answer provided by Tyler Baskfield, public information specialist, Colorado Division of Wildlife
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