In a scattershot pattern that now extends from coast to coast, continental US states have been announcing new hotspots of chronic wasting disease (CWD).
The contagious and always-fatal neurodegenerative disorder infects the cervid family that includes deer, elk, moose and, in higher latitudes, reindeer. There is no vaccine or treatment.
That’s a byproduct of them living in proximity, not a reason for it.
Except humans prevented it by removing predators. That’s a reason for them to return to living in proximity. There should be predators.
A reason to return them, sure, but that’s not what the comment says.
Seems like that’s what it was infering, given the quote above it. Like, “There’s a reason they live in proximity” meaning “we shouldn’t interfere with that”