When you see amazing photos of beautiful wild animals, there’s a good chance the photo is actually of a captive, “model” animal.
A major threat to eastern forest ecosystems is the irruption of white-tailed deer. But the public shouts down increased hunting of does—the only means of control—partly because it gets saturated with photos of game-farm deer on which there is never a tick, sore, clouded eye, or protruding rib.