If you see a fawn without its mother, wildlife experts in Rhode Island are asking you to leave it alone. “The best thing to do – and it’s very easy – is to just walk away,” Dylan Ferreira, a wildlife biologist for the state’s Department of Environmental Management, told NBC 10 News during a phone interview Wednesday. “These fawns are basically placed there by their mother to just lay still and to be safe and that’s what the fawns are doing,” he.