Deer Mistakes Crying Baby for Fawn in Viral TikTok Video

A mother deer’s sweet reaction to a woman’s crying newborn baby was captured on TikTok and quickly gained popularity. The deer mistook the baby for her own fawn.

Ann (TikToker username: @ann_ann_98) captured a viral moment as she filmed her baby crying on a porch, while she attempted to soothe him on a blanket set up outside.

Upon glancing at the lawn, she was immediately drawn to a sight that caught her eye: a mother deer hurrying towards the sound of her crying newborn, as if filled with a sense of urgency.

“Ann quickly shielded her child and scooped him up into her arms, telling the deer, “This is my baby. He’s not yours.”

Despite the TikToker’s attempts to shush her crying child, the video then cuts to a later moment where Ann is seen standing before a mother deer. While peacefully feeding her off-camera, Ann also noticed another deer in her backyard.

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It appears that the mother deer’s fawn was roaming in Ann’s yard. She captured footage of the little deer strolling along the outer wall of her house until it reached a corner, where it started sniffing the surroundings.

Ann’s video has gained a total of 7.3 million views and received over 1.5 million likes. In the comments section, a few TikTok users pointed out the striking similarity between the cries of fawns and human infants.

One viewer shared, “Have you ever heard a fawn cry? I remember once thinking someone had abandoned their baby in a field and went running, but it turned out to be a fawn.”Another viewer chimed in, “I just searched what baby deers sound like when they cry and now I understand why she was mistaken.”

Some were amazed at the quick response of the mother deer to the sound of Ann’s crying baby. “Her maternal instincts kicked in so swiftly,”one individual commented. “That mother was prepared to use her hooves,”another joked. “The bond of motherhood transcends all species, and it brings tears to my eyes,”a third person chimed in.

After a man woke up to find a random deer in his bed, this has become the latest deer-related moment to gain popularity on TikTok.