Posted on 05/18/2016 4:55:43 PM PDT by SJackson
Last week, the de Blasio administration unveiled their plans to manage Staten Island's exploding deer population by giving every single male deer a vasectomy. However, some experts are questioning their solution—a Cornell University ecologist told the Staten Island Advance, "It's difficult for me to come up with all the reasons why this is a really stupid plan. It's ridiculous from the onset."
The city hopes to perform vasectomies over the next three years in order to bring down the deer population by 10-30%. But biologists say this really won't do anything. The Post painted this vivid picture:
In reality, female white-tailed deer go into heat in the autumn rutting season. They emit a powerful scent that attracts males, who chase them and battle each other until every last doe is pregnant. Normally, the rut lasts a month or two. But with bucks shooting blanks, the does will go into heat repeatedly throughout the fall and winter. The hot-to-trot does could attract bucks from near and far for many more months — including still-potent potential mates swimming over from New Jersey.
Al Cambronne, who has written about deer, said that their mating habits are "more random and promiscuous and chaotic" than the city assumes, adding, "One buck can breed many doe."
Cornell ecologist Dr. Paul Curtis said that when he and colleagues conducted a study (PDF) about managing deer numbers in suburban areas, performing vasectomies on bucks was very difficult, explaining that the biggest ones that have the widest ranges don't respond to sedatives, "We could only do three vasectomies— it wasn't safe for the deer and wasn't safe for us," and described the process as "stressful" for the bucks.
Other possible courses of action would be sterilizing does (which is expensive); contraceptive for does (which don't last very long); and euthanizing part of the herd. The current deer vasectomies plan has been endorsed by NYCLASS, a prominent donor to Mayor de Blasio that is now being probed by the FBI.
A City Hall spokesperson told the Post, "We are very confident in our proposal. It’s a smart approach that can be implemented quickly, before the problem increases.”
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Plan to give deer vasectomies will result in ‘sex-crazed beasts’
New York Post By Mary Kay Linge May 14, 2016
Mayor de Blasio thinks there will be no bang for Staten Island’s bucks once he launches a $2 million vasectomy plan to sterilize the borough’s male deer this fall.
Maybe City Hall should have “The Talk” with a wildlife biologist first.
“This proposal has no chance of success whatsoever,” said Dr. Paul Curtis, a Cornell University deer expert.
You see, Mr. Mayor, when a boy deer loves a girl deer very, very much . . .
In reality, female white-tailed deer go into heat in the autumn rutting season. They emit a powerful scent that attracts males, who chase them and battle each other until every last doe is pregnant. Normally, the rut lasts a month or two.
But with bucks shooting blanks, the does will go into heat repeatedly throughout the fall and winter. They would become “buck magnets,” according to a Cornell study.
“Every 30 days or so for up to six months, right into March,” said Dr. Bob Warren of The Deer Laboratory at the University of Georgia.
The hot-to-trot does could attract bucks from near and far for many more months — including still-potent potential mates swimming over from New Jersey.
They won’t allow hunting on Staten Island since there are no truly isolated areas. Even the deepest woods are full of hikers and dogs.
I think the only real option is to trap and eat them. Or relocate them
People with private property bordering the woods should be allowed to trap
I guess more people should have had the opportunity to grow up on a farm. A vasectomy is not castration. Castration is the procedure that allows former male animals to be kept with females: in cattle a castrated bull becomes a steer; in horses a stud becomes a gelding, in hogs a boar becomes a bar. In humans, it has been known for centuries a castrated male becomes a eunuch, a non-sexual threat to women, safe to take care of the master’s harem. It has also been known thinking you are a women does not make one a non-sexual threat to women. So, uncastrated men who dress like women are cross dressers. Men who want to be effeminate should have their gonads removed.
How many gay and questionng bucks will be mutilated in this cis-gendered atrocity?
wouldn’t it be cheaper and easier just to castrate them ???
Everybody hates Bill de Blasio.
In the movie Bambi, the little skunk comes out and says,
“Hi! I’m Flower and I hate that son of a bitch Bill de Blasio.”
Maybe they shoult try circimsizing them first!
Liberals always talk about respect for nature, but their nostrums always subvert and seek (fail) to control nature.
They have no respect for nature at all, it is just a weapon to enforce control like everything else they do.
I think New York restricts bow hunting within 150 feet of a residence and 250 feet for crossbow.
With the rich Italian heritage on Staten Island venison scalopini and salamis would bring an economic boost.
The stench of Essence of Moron emitted by this crowd must be absolutely gagging.
Bow hunt
Oops, wrong thread. You're right it's a renewable resource. It's perfectly legal to carry a firearm in the smokies.
The deer can ride over on a fairy, or a ferry, or whatever. Or they can swim. If the bucks are downwind, they will find a way
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Lol. I do it quite often.
Buck Bucky their is really over estimating his stinger length....or he is just working on his air-hump moves.
I can bring some Missouri rednecks and thin that right down for them.
Maybe they use Uber, I can load a few into my van on the way over
that just makes too much sense....
They could issue a few more female permits, too.
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