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News stories tagged with "deer"
(01/13/12) State officials are investigating the death of a deer in the town of Thurman in Warren County that appears to have been infected with an uncommon bacteria. The animal was spotted in December by hunters, still alive but suffering from obvious distress. Last week, researchers who conducted a necropsy identified what appeared to be a bacteria infection. more
(01/05/12) Horns and antlers are more than different variations on animal head gear. Antlers are temporary and contain no actual bone. Horns are for keeps. Martha Foley and Curt Stager discuss pointy-headed creatures.
(10/13/11) Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about eye shine, and why some animals' eyes reflect light and others' don't.
(10/04/10) In the North Country, we see whitetail deer grazing in fields and leaping across roads at dusk. Author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas sees far more than that. Betsy Kepes reviews her new book, The Hidden Life of Deer, Lessons form a Natural World. more
(02/12/09) Deer usually yard up in the winter, living in groups in cedar swamps and other locales where browse is plentiful. But when the pickings (and the deer) grow thin, they'll graze as high as they can reach, right up to the wall of your house. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about whitetails and white weather.
(01/05/09) To kick off the new year, we begin a new occasional series. It's called Story 2.0. We'll review stories our news team has filed in the past. Then we'll follow up with the people we interviewed to find out what's happened since. Today, chronic wasting disease. The fatal deer disease was discovered in two wild deer in Oneida County in April 2005. It was the first time it had been found east of Illinois. Wildlife officials were worried the disease would spread throughout the deer herd in New York and the Northeast. But so far, no new cases have been found. Chronic wasting disease has no known effect on people. All the same, it rattled some when it was discovered that one of the contaminated deer was served at the Verona Fire Department's sportsmen's dinner. David Sommerstein traveled to Verona for our story back in 2005. He updates the story with Martha Foley.
(10/20/08) Every year there are about 1.5 million deer-car accidents. Now highway officials are testing a new system to cut down on those accidents. Rebecca Williams has more.
(11/14/07) With the fall hunting season in full swing, state officials say they've found more whitetail deer infected with a fatal new ailment called Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease. Cases have been confirmed in Albany, Rensselaer and Niagara Counties. Brian Mann has details.
(02/28/07) After three years of decline, state environment officials say the 2006 deer harvest was up slightly. Hunters killed nearly 190,000 deer across New York state. As Brian Mann reports, biologists found no new cases of chronic wasting disease.
(10/19/06) A new study finds that deer can spread a fatal brain wasting disease through saliva and blood. Rebecca Williams reports the researchers say this means no part of an infected animal should be considered safe to eat.
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