It's too cosy and sentimental to be true. All that I've heard from observations about red deer elsewhere is to the effect that once the rut is over stags and hinds go their own ways. Groups of stags wander around together while hinds also remain in largely single sex groups but accompanied by the youngest of both sexes. Now this is the third year that this has happened. Most of the hinds have gone elsewhere leaving a couple with one calf.
Nuclear families in wild animals is about as anthropomorphic as you can get. But you can but report what you see and this group of three has been seen now five times this year and that repeats the observations of two previous years.
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