ORIGINAL: nctaxi
No I don't agree at some levels. I think that deer are smarter from experience and from learning from older deer. How many guys have been busted by an old doe, and her teaching her fawns to look up? If you raise a fawn to adulthood, it doesn't know any different. It has to be taught to some extent. You could take the child of the 2 smartest people in the world and stick it on a deserted island with the 2 biggest idiots in the world and you are gonna end up with a dumb kid with good genetics.
The Dominant doe does more to educate her offspring than a buck does ..... she is the one that he is around as a button during hunting season ......