By Susan Milius
Fawns can distinguish their mom’s voice from another deer’s, but a mom can’t pick out her fawn’s call, researchers say.
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That’s different from recognition skills of sheep or reindeer, according to Marco Torriani of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. In past studies of those species by other research groups, the young recognized the mother’s calls and vice versa.