Seeking Jane Doe

Years ago, a colleague of mine, eager to jumpstart his love life, began placing and answering personal ads in a newspaper. Let us just say that they led in interesting directions. Adirondack whitetail deer seek relationships in similar fashion. They place their own advertisements, of a sort. Other deer answer them, and by the following June or thereabouts, does are delivering fawns.

For whitetails, the courting season begins in earnest in early fall when testosterone levels rise in the males. Bucks that were