Deer University Episode 073 - Understanding Buck Movement - Part 1

[@woodsdog7849]

Appreciate your focus in this study on helping hunters and hunting.

[@benbearkiller]

I can’t ever get enough of y’all’s work!!

[@fisherman_of_navarone]

Thanks fellas. Although I live in Canada this information is invaluable. Our peak rut in Ottawa is around November 15-20.

[@Raised-Right]

Thanks for the free download! I enjoy listening about your studies.

[@swampbiologist]

Great Video guys! anxiously awaiting part 2!

[@harvey_the_rabbit]

Very very good. I am looking forward to P2 coming out.

[@glenwhittington8225]

Amazing information sharing from your research! God Bless!

[@bradyhenderson3921]

Just waiting on Part 2 to drop!

[@adamlimbach6756]

Hope topics like “lockdown phase” is covered in part 2. It would be fairly easy to get barometric data historically to align with movement patterns as well.

[@markdiperna1523]

Here’s one: how do the collar devices influence/affect buck behavior? Do collared bucks move less bc they are self conscious? How do your results control for this confounding variable? (if that’s the proper use) can it be done? What are the limitations of this? How do other deer feel about the collared? Are they nervous? Bc in some sense you could therefore conclude that “collared bucks do xyz” you couldn’t generalize upon the larger population correct? Like how much time per day do the bucks spend trying to get the collar off? Certainly not zero especially initially. Shouldn’t that data be excluded? Is it excluded? Absolutely love your work please keep it up and branch to NY asap!

[@joec1212]

Man I've been looking forward to this one!!!!

[@tomgates5696]

Building on the comment about age class… have you broken the data down by those age classes? Does deer movement behavior change with age? Good good stuff! Really enjoy your videos.

[@jasonhildreth5090]

I understand that none of your data supports "moon phase" movement, but I was curious if "moon position" has any effect on deer movement? By moon position meaning directly overhead/underfoot being "major" feeding/movement times and moon rise/moon set being "minor" feeding/movement times especially when occurring near sunrise/sunset. BTW, I'm not a moon guy but a guy who hunts whenever I have the time regardless of moon phase or moon position, but I do find your buck studies extremely interesting. Thank you for your work!

[@trthero3780]

They covered the moon on page 7 of the document. No correlation.

[@joec1212]

Around 28 minutes..."it's basically akin to to the bar closing"😅. Again, I thoroughly enjoyed the cast! Looking forward to the next one!

[@jaredross1357]

What is the average duration of data collection across your bucks/how many months or years after collaring did they stay alive? Shortest? Longest? If continuing this project it will be super interesting to see if more data points shift some of these generalizations.

[@southernhood5145]

did you separate the bucks by age group to see what was the difference in behavior been young and older deer

[@msudeerlabtv5058]

Most of the bucks were 3.5 and 4.5. A couple 2.5 and a couple 5.5+

[@southernhood5145]

@msudeerlabtv5058 thanks.

[@dustincain561]

I’d love to see if there is a relationship between a mobile bucks second home range and where he was born at and got pushed off his mother.

[@brushcrawler8612]

Great question...ask it in every video until you get an answer

[@joehenz]

You talked about bucks, but did you collar any does?

[@msudeerlabtv5058]

In this study we only collared bucks.

[@Ben_Allgood]

Great work as always. Looking forward to the next parts. What time of day were the net displacements measured? Midnight measurements could maybe differ from noon measurements. Also, did size of cover areas correlate to daytime safe zones? Were smaller cover focal areas selected for over larger sized cover focal areas?

[@cray-z7404]

Good stuff

[@KYOutdoorPursuits]

Awesome data. How does this movement over such a large area affect those with smaller acreage and trying to manage for older age classes? Is it even possible for those hunters to manage for older age classes with acreage sub 100 acres.

[@WayneGreenlee-h6r]

When is the rut in the area of the bucks collared?

[@Whitetailpursuer]

What about putting gps on hunters and deer to see the Deer response to pressure?

[@benbearkiller]

Hell yea the deer gunna start collaring us hunters next 😂 But on a real note I think it will be brought up later in the series.

[@r3dn3ck1996]

I believe they did that very thing if I am remembering correctly. It was in an earlier podcast on the study.

[@Gator1167]

Does a busy highway cause a buck not to cross that highway

[@roberts735]

“Bucks” is broad term. Is your research specific to white tail? Is there mule and black tail study’s involved in your research? I hunt blacktail here in Northern California at 5-9000’ elevation

[@benbearkiller]

Whitetail specific study

[@genem2452]

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