…that’s…good? My brother in Christ what do you expect a carnivore to eat?
The only kind of shocking “gore-style” videos I ever enjoyed when I was young were animals fucking up humans who were hunting or tormenting them. Honestly that shit never gets old for me. When those pics of that matador with a bull horn going in his neck and out his mouth my only reaction was
Cool bro, nice definitely real data about animals existing in nature you paid to put on that billboard. Now do cars
Incidentally, I was curious what this number actually is, but apparently no one is even attempting to keep track of how many deer are injured/killed by cars, despite frequently involving a police report and/or insurance claim
I can literally see a dead deer every few miles in some places. I imagine a portion of them are hit by larger trucks where an insurance claim isn’t necessary.
Are they suggesting that wolves be eliminated so these monsters have more deer to hunt? Also don’t areas with deer population in US often complain about there being too many deer around?
Either that or they want to be given the go ahead to hunt wolves. And yeah, overpopulation of deer is bad for ecosystems as they clear out underbrush and prevent new growth trees from forming. This both limits biodiversity but also sets up a long term problem of barren landscapes when the old growth trees do finally die.
Hunting as a way to control animal populations is an important talking point by gun and hunting groups. If ecosystems can be put into a more natural equilibrium by reintroducing apex predators, then they lose this talking point.
It’s partially true, something needs to kill and scare deer or they’ll starve out & destroy the habitat of every other animal in the area, but yes, wolves are waaaaaay fucking better at it and these idiots don’t want em. If we were earnestly trying to restore a habitat it would be good to hunt there until the wolves get their population going
Yeah deer are one of the only animals whose populations are higher than pre-Colombian exchange. We basically created their ideal environment across the entire country, forest at the edge of open field.
The most common causes of death for deer are, in order: Human hunting, car collisions, starvation, and last is predation (predation does outrank car collision in certain areas with few people and few cars). Very few animals are actually capable of taking down an adult deer, so if they survive to adulthood they’re almost guaranteed to be killed by a human or by living long enough they wear down their teeth until they can’t chew food anymore and starve to death.
Yeah this is so messed up, we need to stop these wolves from killing so many deer… Checks notes… so that we can kill them instead
This is the actual message of the sign.
“Isn’t it terrible what those wolves due to deer” says person who is mad he only gets one tag this year because wolves actually naturally control deer populations.
Yea lots of things but nothing you’re going to get as much high quality meat from as a single deer (not sure what the status on moose tags in Minnesota is). They probably get bear tags too but the quality of near meat is really dependant on age and what their diet was.
There’s also bird hunting, both waterfowl and land based game birds but that’s a bunch of specialized equipment including trained dogs.
