How Pigs Can Help Deer: Analysis of Urban Deer Management Techniques Concerning Contraception as a Potential Effective Method of Control
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Authors
Bullman, Allison
Date of Issue
2024
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Presentation
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en_US
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Abstract
Given the increasing number of deer finding their way into urban cities, many conflicts have arisen that have caused human economic loss and an increase in concern about safety. From this, there has been a push to find methods to manage these urban deer populations, especially as they overpopulate. Upon further analysis of different sources of literature, five groups of management methods are used across the United States: (1) public management, (2) sharpshooting and managed hunts, (3) culling, (4) live capture and release, and (5) contraception; all with many different viewpoints associated with public perception, effectiveness and consistency, financial concern, and ethical analysis. These management methods will be discussed concerning the conflicts deer have caused in urban cities, specifically focusing on the urban deer population management plan of Helena, MT. Lastly, further discussion of contraception, looking specifically at experimental contraceptive Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP), as a method to managing urban deer populations creates a push towards further analysis of research on the topic to better give evidence to this potentially effective and humane method of urban deer population management that can check off all of the boxes of concern.