“While beloved by many, Bambi is blamed not only for accidents — 1.2 million between July 2011 and June 2012 according to one estimate — but also a loss of vegetation and even the spread of disease in suburban America. Amid safety qualms about shooting rifles in residential areas, communities are getting creative and turning to bow hunting and even birth control to keep down deer numbers in towns and suburbs. Near Washington, some homeowners irked by deer lunching on their landscaping or worried about Lyme disease — transmitted by the deer tick — call on archery experts to carry out culls.”
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