You would rather a deer starve and feed the coyotes than be hunted and feed humans?
Inbreeding is caused by no new genes being introduced. When the dominant deer hangs around he tends to start breeding his own offspring. Random killing of the big monster bucks ensures that fresh genetics are given the chance to be introduced. Sure the old deer will eventually die and a younger buck be given the chance. Hunters are merely speeding it up. We are doing our duty in the food chain. I should have been more clear.
The hawks, snakes, cats, and my silly dog for that matter will help control the mice population as usual. If rats were bigger I'd even hunt them for food myself.
You can look at it anyway you want to, but we are a member of the food chain. Sure not everybody that hunts does it to eat the food. But to take away all hunting would be like the example of the farmers and the wolves mentioned earlier. It's all a balance. We just have the ability to make killing deer illegal that the wolves don't.
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Originally posted by Kitsune
Whats going to happen when the deer outgrow their current habitat and there is not enough food for them to forage?
Then they die off due to starvation and their numbers return to normal.
What happens when the deer get so populated they start inbreding?
Uhh -- inbreeding is caused by small populations, not large ones.
If we don't hunt the deer how are we going to control the population?
What are we going to do when hunters aren't permitted to roam the countryside with .22s and plink away at mice? Won't the mouse population explode and overrun everything? Somehow, I think the deer population will tend to itself just as it has for thousands of years. I could be wrong, but I think the argument that hunters and hunting seasons control various animal populations is a load of bunk.
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