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The black-tailed deer lives along the Pacific coast from northern and western California and north to southeastern Alaska. East of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada in Washington, Oregon and California, black-tailed deer are replaced by phenotypically different mainland mule deer, the latter being much larger, with lighter pelage, more prominent rump patches and larger ears.
Male deer do these most often during breeding season. [citation needed] During the rut (known as the rutting period and in domestic sheep management as tupping), males often rub their antlers or horns on trees or shrubs, fight with each other, wallow in mud or dust, self-anoint, and herd estrus females together. These displays make the male ...
The Sitka deer or Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) is a subspecies of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), similar to the Columbian black-tailed subspecies (O. h. colombianus). Their name originates from Sitka, Alaska, and it is not to be confused with the similarly named sika deer. Weighing in on average between 48 and 90 kg ...
The deer breeding season, known as the "rut," typically begins in early-to-mid November. The general deer and elk hunting season concludes Nov. 26. So far this season, nearly 4,600 hunters have
Someday in a future deer season, whitetail hunters will be on the same page when discussions of rut timing take center stage around the fire. But it is not now. — Oak Duke writes a weekly column.
Nov. 8—Montana's general hunting season is hitting the midway point, and according to state wildlife officials, the overall harvest is expected to increase with the onset of the rut in the ...
One of the principal means of distinguishing the closely related black-tailed deer and white-tailed deer is the growth habit of the buck's antlers. In the case of the Black Tail and California mule deer, the antlers fork in an upward growth, whereas the other species' antlers grow in a forward direction.
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