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Date of Publication: February 9
Year of Publication: 2022
Publication City: Sheridan, WY
Publisher: ScienceAlert US
Author(s): Aria Bendix
Vaughn Cooper sees white-tailed deer every day in his neighborhood outside Pittsburgh.
The species is common in most US states. Pennsylvania alone has around 1.5 million white-tailed deer – about 30 per square mile (2.6 square km) – while the US has around 30 million in total.
“My dog goes ripping after the deer every morning,” Cooper, the director of the Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, told Insider.
Interactions between humans and deer – or deer and other animals – are a pressing concern among scientists, since the coronavirus now appears widespread in the US white-tailed deer population.
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