How much higher is the deer kill from human hunting than the other four causes?

Answer: More than four times higher than any other source. In fact, human hunting was responsible for about twice as much deer mortality in northern Wisconsin than the other four causes combined.

The rates of mortality were human hunting 43%, starvation 9%, coyote 7%, wolf 6% and roadkill 6%.

If you added poaching (8%) the human kill gets even more significant…

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