"White-tailed deer are adaptable and prolific animals equipped with keen survival instincts (Halls 1984). Major predators such as the and have been extirpated from much of the deer’s range (Cote and others 2004; Rooney and Waller 2003). Because of human intervention, the range of the whitetail has actually expanded to include offshore islands, such as , , where seven deer introduced in 1967 grew to a herd of 700 deer by 1994 (Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Fish and Wildlife 2007). In addition to the food sources available to them in forests, deer have successfully exploited the human-altered environment, feeding in agricultural fields, orchards, roadsides, lawns, and gardens."
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