Leave Baby Wild Animals Alone, New Campaign Stresses

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A new social media campaign in South Dakota wants to people to leave baby wild animals alone.

With the backdrop of the bison calf in Yellowstone that had to be euthanized earlier this month after tourists put it in their car, Thea Miller Ryan is taking to social media to teach people to let nature take its course.

Miller directs the state's outdoor learning center in Sioux Falls. Her office receives hundreds of calls every year about potential rescues of baby wild animals.

Now, for every call her office answers, she posts on Facebook and Twitter an image of a sparrow that has a sugar skull for a head. She also mentions the creature that the call was about and the phrase, "If you care, leave it there."

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