"The premise is really quite simple: human activities change where deer are on the landscape, and wolves go where the deer are," said co-lead author Thomas Gable, a postdoctoral researcher at the ...

Deer understand that they should steer clear of wolves. And new research suggests that regions with wolves tend to have a markedly lower rate of deer-automobile collisions, as the predators scare ...

"We used to see wolf and deer tracks all the time. There were areas where the deer trails were like cattle paths. Now you hardly ever see any. "The deer are gone, and so is the wolf," said Rheault.