What Deer DNA Reveals About Which Bucks Breed w/ Dr. Steve Ditchkoff

Podcast: East Meets West Hunt · Beau Martonik

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

Beau Martonik sits down with Dr. Steve Ditchkoff at Auburn University, where he has run the deer lab for about 25 years and has been studying deer for roughly 35. He did not grow up hunting deer. His father quit about the time he was born, so he grew up fishing outside Detroit, found a fisheries and wildlife degree at Michigan State, studied wintering deer in Maine on snowshoes, and did his PhD in Oklahoma on mating strategy, which was a question deer biologists mostly weren’t asking then. That question is what this episode is built on...