Oh deer: The surprising source of many of B.C.'s aggressive wildlife reports

When most people think about wildlife they wouldn’t want to encounter on a walk, carnivores such as bears, cougars and wolves spring immediately to mind.

Deer are unlikely to be at the top of that list.

And yet it is deer that are responsible for the second-largest number of calls to conservation officers to report aggressive or threatening wildlife, after black bears, a CBC analysis has revealed.

Our analysis

CBC News obtained four years of data on calls to conservation officers to report threatening wildlife. The data does not include reported incidents in which the animal’s behaviour was not considered aggressive.

The first two years, however, only