A challenge for conservation breeding and reintroduction programs is low post-release survival due to deficits in critical behavioral competencies in captive-bred animals, such as predator recognition and avoidance. Although antipredator training, in which predator cues are paired with aversive stimuli, can improve behavioral responses, it is often labor-intensive and difficult to scale across captive populations. Maternal effects offer a potential alternative, whereby a mother’s experience infl