DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- Iowa drivers are being reminded to watch out for deer over the next few weeks as the breeding season gets under way.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says bucks will become more active as they search for does in November.

November is also the highest month for car-versus-deer collisions.

State deer biologist Tom Litchfield says deer will become more unpredictable.

Litchfield says to help avoid deer collisions, drivers should slow down and minimize traveling at dusk and down.

The number of deer killed in collisions in Iowa dropped in 2008, then increased in 2009 to numbers around the levels in 2007.

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