Will Touching A Baby Bird Make The Mother Abandon It?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Were you—or are you—the kind of kid who liked to get into nature, to handle things from the great outdoors in order to learn more about the world around you? Then you probably heard the old saying from a parent or another adult at one time or another, the one that cautioned you from picking up baby birds found on the ground because, if they were handled by humans, their mothers would abandon them. Sounds legitimate, right? Well, this one’s actually not true for a number of reasons.