deer

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Monday’s item on the booming deer population in Massachusetts and the movement to allow hunting on Sundays has inspired poetry from a longtime reader:

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

They also documented where and when wolves killed prey, mainly elk, bison, and deer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

Deeper analysis showed ravens were in fact revisiting spots where wolves commonly took down prey -- animals like deer, elk or bison -- suggesting the birds were creating and memorizing a "resource landscape."

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Some cars already have devices fitted to deter large animals like deer.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

She looked around the clearing then and found that she was surrounded by all manner of forest creatures—owls and foxes, dormice and squirrels, bees and deer and rabbits.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish