Oh I did notice. I also noticed that the article mentions many of their plants serving as food for the deer as ours almost did.
And as for the impact of our lifestyle on theirs. I would challenge the point, how do you know what the life of the deer would have been like if those people weren't there? Before you can say the impact is negligible you need a frame of reference for comparison.
As in the examples I already put in my post, there are examples of deer and humans coexisting. My suggestion about the possibility of keeping our distance (rather than "removing ourselves entirely from it" which I did not suggest in my post) was based on the inclusion of the other species such as "Wolves, Bears and the bigger cats", you know, the ones I actually referred to residing some distance away from.
I will apologise for not having the requisite level of clarity for my point. The point itself stands.
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