I won't mention names or any specific info to identify the school.
But, there was a study, not long ago, conducted on a military installation in Alabama.
This concluded that 70% of our newborn fawns were killed by coyotes.
I had some questions that went unanswered.
First of all, there was 11 pregnant female whitetails abducted by a group of college students who implanted a GPS tracker in the fetus. Then they tracked the births and found 7 of them dead, with coyotes eating 6 of the carcasses.
They then proclaimed that 70% of fawns are being killed by coyotes.
My questions were,:
1. How many was stillborn due to the trauma of being abducted and molested by a gang of graduate students?
2. How do we determine the fawns we're killed by coyotes? I mean coyotes are scavengers, they're happy to eat a dead carcass anytime they find one.
3. What evidence was used to determine how the fawns died?
I spend most of my time in the woods and on the farm. I don't find evidence that coyotes are killing deer, not in any great number.
I'm not stupid, I know the Coyote is a predator, but he's also a scavenger, very eager to partake of any dead animal he finds.
So, I say all this, to say that the elusive deer survey was just as much bullschit as this bogus coyote predation study.