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BigBill said: You would be shocked if I posted a video here regarding me driving around the neighborhoods showing just how urban it is. Yet deer are extremely common as are other critters.
The fact that we have open woodland, residential areas and industrial area all interspersed together is what creates these ideal situations for animals to thrive.
If you take 100 square miles of one dimensional woodland with all oak trees or all beech trees, that does not hold very many deer. Back in college around 1970, it was known as uni-culture.
Take that 100 square miles, make it diverse with open, business and residential areas and the deer populations explode. That seems counter intuitive! But it is the mixed culture, the mixed habitats, that cause deer to be common.
Food becomes available, flower gardens, vegetable gardens etc. provide a varied deer menu.
Just this spring I had two near misses with turkey. One where three were standing by the side of the road like they were at a bus stop. As I neared them, they flew. The second time a turkey ran across the road 50' in front of me.

I had two deer run across that same stretch of road two weeks ago. They went from garden apartments to a single home section and then back to the garden apartments. They were not hit by me but it was odd that they seemed frightened a bit but yet stayed out near the road!
I use this analogy that to deer and other critters, humans have put up a "free food sign" up with this biodiversity. We can't keep them out.
For comparison, put a sign up " free hamburgers" in the middle of Livonia at a MacDonalds and sit back and watch the chaos!!!
Both deer and humans get hungry.

oh my good, well according with what you are telling me perhaps the Longueuil major is right about culling the deer. I had no idea they were able to get into city spaces to get food, I always imagined that was just a raccoon or squirrel thing.