The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia.
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Genus: | Odocoileus |
| Species: | O. virginianus |
White-tailed deer are the smallest members of the North American deer family. Adult white-tail deer have reddish-brown coats in summer. The color fades to a duller grayish-brown in winter. Male deer, called bucks, are easily distinguished in the summer and fall by their large set of antlers. New antlers are grown annually and fall off in the winter.
"White-tailed" refers to the white underside of the deer's tail, which it displays and wags when it senses danger.
Life Cycle
The female
deer, called
the doe, is
ready to have
a fawn when
she is about 2
years old. She
carries the
fawn for 6
months, and
then gives
birth to the
fawn around
May or June. The female deer gives birth to a live baby deer called a fawn. The fawn
is able to walk right after it is born. It will start getting milk from its
mother but will start eating other food in a matter of days. At the end of
six weeks, the fawn is eating on its own. The white spots of the fawn
help to hide it from predators.
The fawn will stay
with its mother
for two years if it
is a female, and
one year if it is a
male. It loses its
spots before
winter of its first
year. It is a plant
eater and
depends on
plants. At this
stage the deer
are called
yearlings.
Males, called bucks, leave their mother when they are around 1
year old. They will begin to grow antlers when they are two
years old. Male deer travel alone. Most white-tailed deer live about 2 to 3 years. The maximum life span in the wild is 20 years, but few deer live past 10 years old.Fun Facts
- A newborn fawn can stand in twenty minutes, walk in one hour, run a bit in twenty-four hours, and outrun a man in five days.
- The hollow winter hair of the deer’s coat provides excellent insulation, preventing loss of body heat, while also keeping the snow from melting.
- On average, a deer needs to eat about eight pounds of vegetation, per one hundred pounds of body weight, per day. An 150-pound deer needs to eat twelve pounds of food in a twenty-four hour period over most of the year.
- Over most of the year, whitetails remain bedded sixty to seventy percent of the time, usually feeding five times every twenty-four hours. Deer can defecate while bedded, but need to get up to urinate.
- Like a human, an adult deer has thirty-two teeth. But a deer has no upper teeth in the front of its mouth; the space is instead filled with a hard-surfaced pad of gristle.
- Sparring is an activity bucks partake in in order to test one another for dominance, as well as develop the muscles and skills that they will need if they should actually have to fight during the breeding season. Sparring is also a reaffirmation of the status quo in each fraternal group and prevents actual fights from having to take place, which could cause severe injuries, if not death.
- During the rutting season, a buck will lose up to 25 percent of their body weight from the constant seeking and chasing of does.
If you want know more about White Tailed Deer, just visit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/10-fascinating-whitetail-deer-facts-pics/
https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib4/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/6322/White%20tailed%20deercycle.pdf
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