Fawn Killed by Coyote

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06-20-2017, 10:48 AM

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Muley Hunter

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Originally Posted by buffybr

One of the deer biologists at the Region 3 F&G headquarters in Bozeman, MT did an almost career long study of the mule deer in the Bridger mountain range north of Bozeman.

One of his findings was that in the first 6 months after fawns are born, coyotes kill 45% of them.

That's more than I would have thought. Did they know how many bears kill?

Then we have the cats killing one adult deer a week. We have thousands of cats here.

Plus, hard winters kill who knows how many?

Plus, hunters.

Deer have a tough life.

06-20-2017, 04:14 PM

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buffybr

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Location: SW Montana

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MH, I don't recall how many fawns the bears and cats get, but it was a lower number than the coyotes got.

That mountain range has a good number of both bears and lions.