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University Helps Limits Local Deer Population
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At dusk, Prof. Paul Curtis and Prof. Jay Boulanger quietly disappear into Cornell’s forests. They locate the female deer they have been searching for through a radio transmission device and shoot it with a tranquilizer dart. Within minutes, the deer is sedated, blindfolded and transported to the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, where intern surgeons perform a quick, permanent sterilization procedure. An hour later, the doe, injected with painkillers, is released back into the wild, and Curtis and Boulanger call it a night.