Transcription of Deer Daddy?
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62 QUALITY WHITETAILSB reeding success among whitetail bucks has long been associated with cer-tain physical factors, most importantly their age, antler size, body weight, nutri-tional status, and physical condition. These are the factors that, together, combine to determine dominance among bucks. In the early decades of deer management, biolo-gists assumed relatively few mature, domi-nant bucks sired most fawns, thus pre-venting younger, subordinate bucks from breeding. This may still sound similar to what you have read in some articles, right? But what if these long-held assumptions are not entirely true?
DECEMBER 2011 • JANUARY 2012 63 Captive Studies In our studies using captive white-tailed deer, we investigated the long-held assumption that relatively few dominant
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