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It's probably harder for bison to free range like deer these days. Deer are extremely agile and can leap most fences with ease. Deer are also pretty docile when
by chrisco255 9mo ago
It's probably harder for bison to free range like deer these days. Deer are extremely agile and can leap most fences with ease. Deer are also pretty docile when they're not in rut. Outside of nature preserves it doesn't seem realistic.
- rickcarlino 9mo agoThat’s what I was wondering. Makes sense.
- flyinghamster 9mo agoAn additional data point is that Midewin's bison area is surrounded by a double fence - a barbed-wire one to keep the humans out and a stout steel one to keep the bison in.
- jjtheblunt 9mo agoThe Fermilab bison used to have (probably still do) a sign in their field that said, amusingly, not to jump the fence into the field unless you can cross it in 9 seconds, because the bull can do it in 10. (grew up on the DuPage county side of Fermilab, got to take physics there too, which was awesome)
- dylan604 9mo agoI don't think bison really care about fences either. While they don't leap over them, they just walk through them
- chrisco255 9mo agoI realize bison can force down many fences but thats what I mean. I've seen neighborhoods where deer thrive in the suburbs largely grazing in people's yards and medians on the roadway. They are sometimes even fed corn by the residents. Bison are not only much more destructive, they are sometimes quite violent and will charge and horn people without warning. They need to be on ranches with special fencing or preserves.
- dhosek 9mo agoDeer have become almost a nuisance species closer in to Chicago. I’ve seen them in Oak Park about 2 miles away from the nearest forest land. In River Forest, which actually contains forest preserve, things got so bad the village wanted to hire a firm to shoot the deer, but the residents were too shocked by that proposal and it never happened.
- gerdesj 9mo ago"Deer have become almost a nuisance species closer in to Chicago." Bloody locals, pissing around as though they own the place. Let's blast them to Kingdom Come ... hmmm tree huggers and kumbaya. You've actually seen wildlife? Soz!
- razeh 9mo agoI’m in River Forest and the deer are a pain to deal with. They eat your plants, they’re not afraid of people (because they get hand feed) and they get hit by cars. They’re lacking their natural predators — and the logical solution of introducing them is ruled out because the local forest preserves aren’t large enough to support wolf packs. Maybe the coyotes will figure out how to take them down.
- lostlogin 9mo agoMaybe the suburban apex predator (the car) will be enough to sort it out.
- chrisco255 9mo agoIt's not, the deer that learn to live in suburbs learn to avoid traffic.
- nick49488171 9mo agoThere are so many deer overpopulating in the eastern US that now they are getting weird prion diseases.