Quote Originally Posted by Walking Buffalo View Post
Hybrids are not always sterile, but there is a decrease in fertility within these offspring.
Even when fertile hybrids survive the lower survival rates due to compromised predator escape physiology...
Reduced reproductive abilities of hybrid deer is still one of the main causes of WT dominance over Mule Deer.


Who's your Daddy?
It's almost always the WT.

WT deer not only outcompete and potentially replace MD by simply having higher reproductive rates (greater number of twins and triplets),
MD end up with even lower reproductive rates where hybridization occurs as it is female MD that are producing the majority of these young *******s.


Humankind has known and followed this strategy in war for eons.
If you can't kill 'em, F' em.
Went digging some more after your post and from what I found hybrid bucks are sterile but not all hybrid does are sterile in MD/WT hybrids. Could not find if it’s the same with BT/WT but assume the odds are it is.

Not seeing much on BT/WT hybrids or interaction between the 2. Do you know of any in-depth studies on it?