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roads.","Move deer between areas where it risks spreading chronic wasting disease."],"requiresHuman":["Culling deer or dispatching an injured deer.","Handling a fawn that appears abandoned."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Deer welfare and population control involve hard choices between animals and habitats.","Collisions with deer injure and kill drivers."],"affectedParties":["Deer","Drivers","Forests and farmers"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody: wild deer are protected and managed under game and wildlife law; farmed deer belong to their keeper.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Biodiversity occurrence databases"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q25833","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Q29838690","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"deer","type":"related","note":"category"},{"target":"Placentalia","type":"related","note":"category"},{"target":"animal behavior","type":"related","note":"deer behaviour"},{"target":"fence","type":"related","note":"wildlife 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