Vermont officials are asking hunters to submit incisor teeth from deer killed during rifle season. Biologists analyze the teeth to determine a deer's age, health and other population data. This data ...
Instructions on extracting a deer’s tooth Credit: Courtesy of Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is asking deer hunters to practice some amateur dentistry to ...
As a young wildlife biologist, one of the most “sciencey” feeling things I did was age jawbones from harvested white-tailed deer. To this day, I still enjoy it as both a hunter and a biologist, and ...