Nancy Mathews Quotes (3 Quotes)

Adult does and their female fawns establish home ranges in the same location where they were born and stay there for their entire life. Once young bucks have dispersed, they too establish small home ranges and rarely leave them, even during the rut. Deer are not moving long distances, except for young bucks.

Based on the behavior of these deer, we cannot account for the distribution of CWD on the landscape,

The key for understanding transmission across the landscape is the bucks. We really need the males, so if people can refrain from shooting them it will help us continue an important study aimed at understanding how deer behavior affects the transmission of this disease.