{"id":568600,"date":"2025-11-21T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=568600"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:41:39","slug":"white-tailed-deer-populations-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/white-tailed-deer-populations-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"White-tailed deer populations recover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_568605\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-568605 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cariacu-2025-07-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cariacu-2025-07-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cariacu-2025-07-800-250x241.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cariacu-2025-07-800-700x675.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cariacu-2025-07-800-120x116.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Charles J. Sharp\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span>Fashion victim: cultural attachment to deer-skin clothing and accessories nearly drove the species to extinction<span class=\"media-credits\">Charles J. Sharp\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Residents of small towns in the US have grown used to waking up to rose bushes stripped of their flowers, their stems appearing neatly clipped. The culprit is the white-tailed deer (<em>Odocoileus virginianus<\/em>), a species of deer whose population may now number as many as 35 million across the country. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, there were only 300,000 of them. Archaeologist Elic Weitzel of the Smithsonian Institution concluded that deer populations declined sharply as hunting surged between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, when deer-skin clothing was a status symbol. In previous millennia, Indigenous peoples appear to have better managed deer hunting. From the twentieth century onwards, hunting regulations allowed deer populations to recover and flourish alongside humans once more, though not without conflict (<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-again-of-white-tailed-deer-257307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Journal of Anthropological Archeology<\/em><\/a>, May 16; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0278416525000388?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a>, May 29).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US deer population grew from 300,000 to 35 million after hunting declined in the twentieth century","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-568600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568610,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568600\/revisions\/568610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=568600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}