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1 “Dawn of the
Dead” (1978)
director
7 Street, in
Stuttgart
14 *Billboard entry
16 “S’pose so”
17 First of a film
series about
Damien Thorn
18 Cultural
environments
19 Marines NCO
20 *Upright
instrument in a
bluegrass band
22 Head of
Hollywood
24 Switchback
feature
25 Bordeaux wine
28 Hankering
30 Mauna __
33 19-Across boss
34 Conniption
35 “Oh, crud!”
36 *Place to land
when there’s no
land in sight
40 Span. miss
41 “U R 2 funny!”
42 Goosebump-
inducing
43 Neptune’s
realm
44 Hot state
45 Irritating
inconvenience
46 Post-Manhattan
Project org.
47 Selling points?
49 *LensCrafters
products
53 Grouch
57 “Let’s talk in my
office”
58 Word in many
hymns
60 “Inka Dinka Doo”
singer
61 Hollywood family
name ... and
what the
answers to
starred clues
have in common
62 Son of
Clytemnestra
63 Campaign
ugliness
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1 Official accts.
2 Sounds of
amazement
3 Compressed
video file format
4 Abstruse
knowledge
5 Com can follow it
6 At all
7 “The Urbz: __ in
the City”: video
game
8 Long-odds bet
9 It’s often put on a
dog
10 Litmus reddeners
11 Short itinerary?
12 Motown music
13 First word of
Massachusetts’
motto
15 Pest in a swarm
21 Lazy
23 Stag, for one
25 Elegance
26 French wine
valley
27 Main artery
29 It may be nervous
30 Hibernation spots
31 NBC newsman
Roger
32 Come to terms
35 Specification
regarding threads
37 Like many
steakhouse
menus
38 London bank?
39 Harvest
44 Give in
45 Unmannerly
sorts, in
Canadian slang
46 Turkish honorifics
48 Window box plant
49 Opposite of exo-
50 Part of FYI
51 Raison d’__
52 Witnesses
54 Latvian capital
55 Taiwan-based
computer giant
56 Gershwin heroine
59 Parsons of
“Hidden Figures”
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Animal rights activists trot out deer to oppose cull
By CHETALI JAIN
Summer Daily News Editor
In 2014, the city of Ann Arbor
was inundated with complaints
from residents who were concerned
about the growing deer population.
Their grievances, which included
landscaping
damage
and
deer-
vehicle collisions, prompted the city
to vote to handle the situation with
four years of culling.
The Ann Arbor Non-Lethal Deer
Management — an organization of
residents who are concerned with
the well-being of the deer population
in the area — held a special event
Sunday afternoon at the Creature
Conservancy where attendees could
learn of ways to protect the lives of
the cervine wildlife from the culling
and interact with live deer.
Lorraine Shapiro, president of
the Ann Arbor Non-Lethal Deer
Management, explained that the
white-tailed deer are losing their
habitats in the city and are being
crowded out due to developments
and urban sprawl. Shapiro believed
that sterilization of the animals is a
more ethical way to manage the deer
without ending their lives.
“I feel it is inhumane to kill animals
who
are
completely
innocent,”
Shapiro
said.
“They’re
being
punished for living basically. This
past winter, we were able to have the
city agree to a plan where they would
do culling and deer sterilization.”
The
non-lethal
surgical
sterilization method, a procedure in
which the deer’s ovaries are removed,
turned out to be quite successful
as an addition to the 2017 deer
management efforts: 54 deer were
sterilized in a week, and all, with the
exception of one deer who perished
due to non-surgical related reasons,
survived and returned to the wild.
Non-lethal methods of population
management, such as sterilization,
face
many
barriers,
however.
Though the operation is almost 100
percent successful and relatively
quick, lasting only about 20 minutes,
the deer must be given painkillers
and antibiotics, and they must be
monitored before being released
back into the wild, according to a
PowerPoint presentation given at the
event. Thus, the price to sterilize a
deer is around $1,200. By comparison,
it costs approximately $450 to shoot a
deer.
The group acknowledged the
financial burden posed by more
humane efforts and emphasized that
one of their goals is to minimize the
role of culling by offsetting the cost
of nonlethal routes. This past winter,
they contributed over $12,000 to the
city of Ann Arbor to help fund the
ovariectomies.
Despite the financial assistance
and support of many animal activists,
the Michigan Department of Natural
Resources permitted the surgeries
to take place with a stipulation: the
ovariectomies had to be done in the
context of a research project.
According to the group’s treasurer,
Sabra
Sanzotta,
this
non-lethal
method of deer management was not
acceptable to the city unless there
was another reason for doing so — in
this case, scientific studies.
“What we hope to do is find
ways to make those sterilizations
more acceptable and more widely
applicable, and they don’t always have
to be done under research prefaces,”
Sanzotta said. “(We hope) to promote
birth control methods, as well.”
One of the birth control methods
Sanzotta referred to is PZP, a vaccine
that, when administered to a female
animal, causes antibodies to form
that
prevent
fertilization
from
occurring in that creature.
Numerous
roadblocks
have
prevented this non-lethal avenue
from being explored in the Ann
Arbor deer management efforts. The
contraceptive was recently licensed
by the Environmental Protection
Agency to help control wildlife
populations, but because it is still
classified as a pesticide, many harbor
opposition towards its usage. Shapiro
expressed hope that its usage would
become widespread and widely
accepted in coming years.
Leaders from the Ann Arbor
Non-Lethal
Deer
Management
organization also outlined ways for
volunteers to make a difference and
aid efforts to protect the lives of the
deer in Ann Arbor.
Beatrice Friedlander, president
of the Board of Directors of
Attorneys for Animals — a nonprofit
organization of legal professionals
who advocate for animal rights —
attended the event to lend her support
and meet the deer. Friedlander, a
retired lawyer, said it is important to
be practical in the realm of animal
advocacy and to avoid dogmatism.
“Compromise (becomes) a bad
word,” Friedlander said. “While it
is important that we maintain our
standards and ethics… it’s important
to live in the real world and work with
others. I’ve been involved in animal
issues for 25 to 30 years…I had a dog
(in law school) and I developed such
a strong relationship with her; I think
that made me realize how important
animals were and how mistreated
they were.”
Though residential complaints
brought the matter to the city’s
attention and sparked the culling
practice back in 2015, there were
many
residents
who
morally
opposed the killing and the
trouble it posed. In 2016, many
Ann Arbor parks were shut down
to
accommodate
the
culling
efforts, to the dismay of residents
who questioned the ethics of the
cull and the inconvenience of
closed parks. Sixty-three deer
were euthanized that year.
“We
decided
to
take
a
pragmatic
approach,”
Shapiro
said. “We can save a bunch of deer
through sterilization. Maybe we
have to put up with culling at the
moment.”