Not tonight deer: birth control vaccine may reduce urban deer damage

NUISANCE WILDLIFE — Science is out of the rut and onto a new tactic for dealing with burgeoning deer populations in towns and suburbs where the animals can’t be hunted.

A new birth control vaccine for white-tailed deer — a growing nuisance in urban areas for gardens and landscaping — eliminates the dangerous reproductive behavior behind the annual autumn surge in automobile-deer collisions, according to a report in Science Daily .

The vaccine, just becoming commercially available in some U.S. states, was the topic of a report in Denver at the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, Science Daily said.