Two years of GPS-tracking data were used by Mississippi State University Deer Lab researchers to determine if the moon affects buck movement.

Ungulate migration has fascinated people for millennia. In the Western United States, ungulates such as elk, bison and mule ...

POWELL — A six-year study of more than 600 deer in Wisconsin may have found ways to improve management of fatal chronic wasting disease by studying hourly and daily group and individual movements and ...

Deer change where and how long they feed when they detect the scent of large predators, reducing damage to young trees.

Hunters have been trying to understand how the moon affects animal behavior since cavemen etched pictographs on cave walls. Today, biologists acknowledge a link between the full moon and estrus cycles ...

New research shows that the mere smell of predators is enough to change deer behavior and limit browsing damage to tree saplings. The findings, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, offer a ...

The study released by CPW and Colorado State University last month focused on the Piceance Basin southwest of Meeker, home to the state's largest migratory mule deer herd, and found that "more than ...

Deer hunters were more likely to be swayed by social media messages about the potential risks of chronic wasting disease if they came from a source they believed aligned with their own views and ...

LANSING, MI — The Michigan House advanced a long-running fight over deer management this week, approving a bill that would legalize Lower Peninsula deer baiting during hunting seasons and limit a ...

Hunters don’t need a team of researchers to tell us that making noise in the woods spooks game — we’ve known that for millennia. What we can’t always tell is how much racket wild critters will ...