question on bears and fawns

[lonewolf5348]

I heard from many people bear (black bears) will eat the fawns dropped in early summer : I wonder how true is this statement

[BTBowhunter]

The fawn mortality study done almost 5 years ago showed that bears kill roughly as many young fawns as coyotes do. The effect drops off rapidly as the fawns become more mobile but bears do a real number on them early on.

Here is a link to the journals. Anyone interested in the whitetail deer should enjoy reading the journals from the two year study.

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/v...a=465&q=151392

[JSH]

It is absolutely true.

[jerry d]

huh.....i would have never thought that

[bawanajim]

If thats true then the bears in 2F & 2G must be strarrrrvvin hungry.

[bluebird2]

Then the PGC should ship all the orphaned fawns they kill, to 2F and 2G to feed those starving bears.

[bawanajim]

Originally Posted by bluebird2

Then the PGC should ship all the orphaned fawns they kill, to 2F and 2G to feed those starving bears.

If they did just that, you would find something wrong with how they did it.

[bluebird2]

Wouldn't it be better than dumping them in the PGC's illegal deer pits?

[Cornelius08]

Perhaps they use them to fertilize the trillium and hobblebush?

[blkpowder]

That would cause an unbalance in the pH level.