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Show Five Deer Increase to 162 in Six Years at Michigan Zoology Museum In only six years, three bucks and two does released on a reserve near Pinckney increased to a total of 1G2 deer, according to a tally made by a group of naturalists of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, In the first actual count of deer ever to be made on a measured area In Michigan. Michi-gan. "Although most of us believed that the deer herd was increasing very fast during the past few years, this number of 1G2 deer Is much greater than was generally believed to be present," com mented the keeper of the reserve for the University of Michigan museum. The use of the reserve has been giveu to the university as an area for biological bio-logical observation. About thirty people, which Included many members of the scientific staff of the university museum and the Michigan conservation department. participated In thp de?r drive and tal ly. When the figures were finally compiled, com-piled, It was found that there were 88 does, 43 bucks and 33 fawns. According Accord-ing to the keeper. It Is quite possible, however, that these numbers are not entirely accurate, since the count was not completed until late afternoon, when it was quite possible for a spike-horn spike-horn to be counted as a doe. As the deer herd continues to aiul-tiply aiul-tiply on this small area, the university univer-sity museum hopes to discover at what point the height of population will be reached, when parasites and disease will enter in because of overcrowding, together with other facts of Importance Impor-tance to the welfare of all of Michigan's Michi-gan's white-tailed deer. Detroit Free Press. |