Results
We captured and radio-collared 84 fawns (51 males, 33 females) from 23
May to 20 June 2014 and 73 fawns (44 males, 28 females, 1 unknown) from
27 May to 23 June 2015 totaling 157 radio-collared neonates. Adult
females retained 76 of 103 (74%) VITs until parturition. We observed 2
capture-related mortalities during 2015 and removed those individuals
from all analyses. Mean capture age was 4.1 ± 3.7 days (n = 155) and
mean capture mass was 2.9 ± 1.0 kg (n = 155) for all neonates.
We documented 34 (22%) neonate mortalities between capture and 3-months
of age and 44 (28%) neonate mortalities between capture and 6-months of
age (Table 2). We documented 28 (64%) male and 16 (36%) female
mortalities across study areas and years. Predation was the primary
source of natural mortality (61%), whereas hunter harvest (9%) was the
only source of human-related mortality (Table 2). We identified 21
mortalities from neonates captured from VITs compared to 26 mortalities
from neonates captured opportunistically.