New research suggests Ireland's increasing populations of Sika deer may be linked to local outbreaks of TB infection in cattle.
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2021
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A camera-trap study in the Mendocino National Forest in Northern California reveals that black bears are adept at finding and stealing the remains of adult deer killed by pumas. This "kleptoparasitism" by bears, as scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2021
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A new study comparing decades of environmental monitoring records has confirmed that Canada's caribou are not faring as well as other animals like moose and wolves in the same areas—and also teased out why.
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2021
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Juvenile white-tailed deer that strike out to find new home ranges—despite facing more risks—survive at about the same rate as those that stay home, according to a team of researchers who conducted the first mortality ...
Ecology
Mar 8, 2021
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Powerful insecticides are turning up in deer in nearly every corner of Minnesota, raising concerns that the ubiquitous chemicals may be keeping fawns from surviving to maturity or harming deer reproduction.
Ecology
Mar 2, 2021
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Recreational hunting—especially hunting of charismatic species for their trophies—raises ethical and moral concerns. Yet recreational hunting is frequently suggested as a way to conserve nature and support local people's ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2021
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Axis deer, a species native to India presented as a gift from Hong Kong to the king of Hawaii in 1868, have fed hunters and their families on the rural island of Molokai for generations. But for the community of about 7,500, ...
Ecology
Feb 9, 2021
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In the marchland of Japan's Oze National Park, keeping track of the deer population has been a difficult and time-consuming task for the park rangers. Now their lives could get much easier, thanks to a novel technique for ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2021
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For at least a century, ecologists have wondered at the tendency for populations of different species to cycle up and down in steady, rhythmic patterns.
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2021
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Each year, thousands of migratory mule deer and pronghorn antelope journey northwest from their winter homes in the Green River Basin, a grassland valley in western Wyoming, to their summer homes in the mountainous landscape ...
Ecology
Jan 12, 2021
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