I bet its just a matter of where he’s trying to hang out and the amount of aggression he’s getting from other does…..If dispersal is happening in late summer just before fawning then does are gonna move into and start hanging around the habitat where they want to drop their fawns and it would be at that point that they stop tolerating their buck offspring and any others that comes into that area…..If that orphaned buck fawn is trying to use prime fawning habitat then he’s likely to be shown aggression just the same as any other…..It’s very likely that it comes down to the old cliché answer that it just depends on how the variables play out for each situation.
I would think in the end though that its something that has little to no impact one way or the other on the grand scheme of things…..He’s just another buck fawn out of many that are moving around the landscape at that particular time and the end result of how they all settle out is the same in the end….. …..The does are gonna move into the best fawning cover to drop fawns and the dispersing young bucks are gonna get what’s leftover…. He’s either been orphaned in a “hole” that would have eventually been occupied by another dispersing young buck....or he hasn’t and has to move on when the does stop tolerating his presence in their fawning spots….
Last edited by CNC; 09/28/25 09:17 PM.
