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Some people just have a way with animals. Maya seems to be a natural deer whisperer.

Five-year-old Maya Herring and her family had just got back from a family canoe trip, when something amazing happened.

A newborn deer walked across their yard. The fawn kept on approaching the family, apparently showing no fear of the humans. Then the animal started acting even stranger.

When the deer got nearer to the family, she started moving closer to Maya in particular.

Maya got close to the ground, and the baby took the final steps to be right next to her.

Maya pet the deer for a while. The little creature was clearly enjoying being around the child. But why had it approached them in the first place?

The Herring family soon worked out that the baby must have gotten lost from her mother. So they all walked together to the woods nearby their home. The baby deer followed the family. Maya took the lead, helping the baby deer retrace her tracks.

Eventually, the baby deer found a place in the woods where she was comfortable.

She sat down. Maya’s mom and dad went to their home and back to the spot again to give the animal some food and water.

Maya and the rest of the family then left the baby deer, hoping that the food and water would help her until her mother came back.

Over the next few days, the Herring family kept a lookout for the baby deer and her family. Luckily, it wasn’t long until they saw two adult deer and two baby deer all together in their yard. They were pretty sure that one of the babies was the same one that had come up to Maya. It looks like the baby found her family again.

Maya’s father, Brad, captured most of these events on camera.

He uploaded the video to his YouTube channel. It soon went viral. To date, it has gained over 6.2 million views. It also has more than 23,000 likes and 2,100 comments. People have been saying things like this:

Maya’s parents are obviously doing a great job of raising her. Even a baby deer could see that she had a kind heart and would do what she could to help.

The parents have also documented a lot of Maya’s life online. The first video of Maya on YouTube dates back to when she was just a tiny little baby.

In that first video, the parents showed Maya participating in a range of activities, such as bathing in the sink and enjoying the outdoors.

Of course, as Maya was very young, she didn’t have much say in what was going on, but she was clearly a very happy baby.

The next video of Maya dates from a couple of months later. Maya was still a baby but had done a lot of growing.

Unlike the first video, Maya was able to lift her head and look around. She was also happily babbling away and smiling as much as possible.

Clearly, Maya’s parents showed the girl those early videos often. When she saw the baby deer, she knew what it was like to be a newborn, and she knew she had to look after her.

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Source: Brad Herring