Scientists issue warning after making troubling discovery about elusive deer species: 'It had never been demonstrated as robustly'

Scientists issue warning after making troubling discovery about elusive deer species: 'It had never been demonstrated as robustly'

A study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology revealed a troubling connection between native deer populations across Brazil's Atlantic rainforest and human activity and influence. What's happening? As Agência FAPESP reports, a team of Brazilian researchers spent years trying to assess the population density of five deer species in the rainforest. This is particularly tricky with deer because they are so elusive. After collecting samples at…

In the vast forests of Colorado, where elk travel freely through the reliefs of the Rockies, a singular individual comes to disturb the eyes of the observers. Recently seen near Estes Park, this cervid with a brilliant robe presents a genetic rarity known as pebaldism. Neither sick nor albino, but carrying a mutation that shakes the familiar motifs of animal peeling, this elk attracts both the objectives and the amazed comments. A statistical an…