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If you see a baby hare, please leave it there, according to a Calgary wildlife organization that has been inundated with calls from concerned citizens about seeing the animals alone around the city.

Andrea Hunt, executive director with the Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society, says snowshoe and white-tailed prairie hares are having their babies around this time of year, and the mother will leave their young for long periods of time under bushes and in the grass while foraging for food, returning only at dawn and at dusk.

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The young are also kept in separate hiding places so that if a predator happens upon one baby, it won’t find the entire brood, Hunt added.

But many members of the public mistakenly believe babies have been abandoned by their parents, and bring the animals into the wildlife society’s northwest Calgary facility to be rescued, not realizing their actions are doing more harm than good.