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<blockquote data-quote="lunkerslayer" data-source="post: 148954" data-attributes="member: 217">I sure that analogy may work in an environment that has an even playing field between predator and prey but this is not the case of herds of deer with does who are perfectly healthy and pregnant. When you have areas that have 3 plus feet of snow for 100s of square miles deer have a disadvantage. I don't understand your ideas of less coyotes produce bigger litters, if there are less coyotes in an area how can they produce bigger litters if there is none. Use the wolf as an example to this statement.Years of overharvesting as well as removing of natural habitat had caused wolves at one time to be almost extinct in northern Minnesota now you have a problem not with wolves but with moose numbers. When you take away an animal's natural habitat that gives them a disadvantage over predators who can pick off perfectly health deer that would have survived had they found suitable habitation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lunkerslayer, post: 148954, member: 217"] [SIZE=2]I sure that analogy may work in an environment that has an even playing field between predator and prey but this is not the case of herds of deer with does who are perfectly healthy and pregnant. When you have areas that have 3 plus feet of snow for 100s of square miles deer have a disadvantage. I don't understand your ideas of less coyotes produce bigger litters, if there are less coyotes in an area how can they produce bigger litters if there is none. Use the wolf as an example to this statement. Years of overharvesting as well as removing of natural habitat had caused wolves at one time to be almost extinct in northern Minnesota now you have a problem not with wolves but with moose numbers. When you take away an animal's natural habitat that gives them a disadvantage over predators who can pick off perfectly health deer that would have survived had they found suitable habitation.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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