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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Could this be because white-tailed deer are browsers and not grazers?</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, November 5, 2020, 12:34:19 PM EST, Ossi, Damien (DOEE) <damien.ossi@dc.gov> wrote:
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<p class="ydp2585e54byiv4101855320MsoNormal">I have noticed that deer will browse on arboescent English ivy, but not on English ivy that grows on the ground. English ivy vines on trees will be stripped of their leaves up to the browse line, but the ivy on the ground is untouched.
English ivy will be stripped off of fallen trees as well. I wonder if something happens chemically when E. ivy arboizes to make the leaves more palatable to deer.</p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [MAIPC] Oh deer</p>
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<p class="ydp2585e54byiv4101855320MsoNormal">We find at Herrontown Woods in Princeton that deer will eat the new growth sprouting from stumps of winged euonymus. I saw what looked like a deer eating the leaves of privet the other day. Along with GMD's (genetically modified deer?),
is it possible that deer could be trained through exposure to more tender versions of invasives to become acclimated/accustomed to eating the mature foliage? Perhaps there are studies in which animals are given mixes containing increasing amounts of an otherwise
rejected food source, until they begin to consider it agreeable? With stiltgrass and other invasives providing such a vast potential food source, there's clear reward for anything that adapts to consume them. </p>
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<p class="ydp2585e54byiv4101855320MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 10:34 AM Marc Imlay <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ialm@erols.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="ydp2585e54byiv4101855320MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">A decade or so ago deer were reported being killed except for a few found consuming Microstegium vimineum. Have any
results been reported of selection for genetically modified deer or new herds trained to eat deer? Marc</span></p>
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