ANIMAL PASSIONS.

DEER populations; WILDLIFE management; DEER hunting; ANIMAL introduction; URBAN growth; VASECTOMY; WILDLIFE conservation

The article examines the deer-population management on Staten Island, New York. Among the synanthropes or wild animals that adapted to thrive in places where humans live are city pigeons, opossums, coyotes, Canada geese and crows. It attributes the increase in deer population in suburban areas to hunting restrictions to protect them and their introduction to urban sprawl. Also described are the effectiveness and cost of the deer vasectomy project of the conservation nonprofit White Buffalo.