[Leica] White tail deer

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Probably coyotes and wolves.


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> All that means is that we humans have decimated their natural predators.
> Better to stop killing whatever they are (Pumas? Bears?), rather than
> justify the over population of deer as an excuse for owning guns.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 19-Oct-2013, at 11:15 pm, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Chris' comments are right on target.
> >
> > White Tail Deer are incredibly overpopulated in Indiana, and in the last
> few years, they
> > have begun to be seen in the large cities like Fort Wayne. I nearly hit
> > one with my car that jumped out into the road in a residential
> > neighborhood in the city last week! This was in a city of 250,000 people,
> > not a rural area!
> > - - - -
> > Those beautiful white tailed deer are 150 lb. rats. They consume just
> about everything that grows and have dramatically changed the
> landscape.They carry and spread Lyme disease, a crippling ailment which has
> reached endemic proportions in the Northeast. Their number has multiplied
> dramatically. We have five sleeping in our back yard. Every time we leave
> the house we have to chase a few away from our garden. If you look at my
> LUG gallery site you will see almost as many pictures of deer as you will
> of flowers.
> >
> > In the Hudson Valley there are now more deer than when the land belonged
> to the Indians. They live on the edge of the woods, feeding in open areas.
> The main reason for the growth in numbers is that venison is no longer
> regarded as a necessary food source. Deer are no longer hunted as in the
> past and restrictive laws keep the hunting season very short. Wolves and
> bears, their natural predators have been largely eliminated. That and the
> Disney movie "Bambi" which led a entire generation to think of deer as
> benign, almost decorative, animals. The greatest predator of deer is now
> the automobile. Rural highways are punctuated with deer carcasses and
> smashed cars. Eat more venison. - Eat.
> > Larry Z
> >
> >
> >
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