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Citation needed. A quick Google search says the US has about 90 million heads of cattle, while the peak population of wild bison was 60 million and of wild deer
by e93849 3y ago
Citation needed. A quick Google search says the US has about 90 million heads of cattle, while the peak population of wild bison was 60 million and of wild deer was 40 million. That seems pretty close.
- dqv 3y ago>That seems pretty close. You're wildly off in your calculations because you've failed to account for replacement rate. It's 90 million heads of cattle with 30 million killed each year. https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/rx913p88g https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/rx913p...
- e93849 3y agoHow many wild bison/deer/elk got killed each year? Right now it seems about 2/3 of fawns die, most of them eaten by predators: https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jwmg.21681 https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jwmg.21... I wonder if that number was higher before humans reduced the number of predators.