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

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.