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#Bestof2022: 2/2: Apex predator wolves in the county can make deer crossings safer. Dominic Parker @PERCTweets; Terry Anderson @HooverInst(Originally posted January 31, 2022)

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#Bestof2022: 2/2: Apex predator wolves in the county can make deer crossings safer. Dominic Parker @PERCTweets; Terry Anderson @HooverInst(Originally posted January 31, 2022)

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/22/e2023251118/tab-article-info

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0:22.9

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0:27.2

get your podcasts.

0:30.9

This is CBS I in the World.

0:32.3

I'm John Batchett with Terry Anderson of the Hoover Institution and Professor Nick Parker

0:37.0

of the Hoover Institution.

0:38.7

Also Nick is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is in the Department of Agriculture

0:44.2

and Applied Economics and with his colleagues Jennifer Rainer and Corbett Granger.

0:50.0

Nick has published Wolves Make Roadways Safer.

0:53.2

How the presumption I had when I started reading this article was, oh well they hunt.

0:58.9

They're like deer hunters but that's not the full story.

1:02.3

Professor what is the landscape of fear you refer to in your paper?

1:07.6

Landscape of fear is an idea and ecology that once you have an apex predator in the environment

1:15.7

in the landscape it changes the behavior of all other animals that are subservient to

1:21.6

that predator and so their behavior could change, their travel routes could change.

1:28.9

The time of day in which they move around could be affected all to avoid predation.

1:37.1

So we wondered how that idea might pertain to the big problem of deer damages and places

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