There also were buffalo in the area along 466 that is now being developed. I can't count how many times I saw people doing stupid things at the fence. Sometimes the buffalo rested in the shade of a tree near the fence. I saw a man with his grandchildren throwing things at the animal trying to get it to come over to the fence. People, as stated above, holding youngsters over the fence with carrots to feed the buffalo. I once stopped and advised a lady to not climb on the fence with food, and she told me to "shut up".
But The Villages is entirely planned out, so areas where the "buffalo roamed" were always intended to be developed. It, IMHO, was the liability issue that ended the original plan to keep moving them as development worked south.
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