deer
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Monday’s item on the booming deer population in Massachusetts and the movement to allow hunting on Sundays has inspired poetry from a longtime reader:
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Deeper analysis showed ravens were in fact revisiting spots where wolves commonly took down prey -- animals like deer, elk or bison -- suggesting the birds were creating and memorizing a "resource landscape."
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
As elk numbers declined in Yellowstone, cougars shifted their focus toward deer.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
Supporting characters like Fiona, a flying squirrel, and Dash, a deer mouse, round out the cast.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
He had a photograph of the three of them in Richmond Park, surrounded by deer, his father laughing with a baby Christopher on his shoulders.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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