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The white-tailed deer's coat is a reddish-brown in the spring and summer, and turns to a grey-brown throughout the fall and winter. The white-tailed deer can be recognized by the characteristic white underside to its tail. It raises its tail when it is alarmed to warn the predator that it has been detected. [11] Female with tail in alarm posture
The Key deer is a subspecies of white-tailed deer which migrated to the Florida Keys from the mainland over a land bridge during the Wisconsin glaciation. The earliest known written reference to Key deer comes from the writings of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda , a Spanish sailor shipwrecked in the Florida Keys and captured by Native Americans ...
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) occurs in aspen parklands and deciduous river bottomlands within the central and northern Great Plains, and in mixed deciduous riparian corridors, river valley bottomlands, and lower foothills of the northern Rocky Mountain regions from Wyoming to southeastern British Columbia. It is an occasional ...
Whitetail deer, for example, consume small twigs and leaves, while reindeer have been known to eat bird eggs and even fish when necessary. Reindeer vs. Whitetail Deer: Antlers
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose).
[2] [3] The specific name cervicapra is composed of the Latin words cervus ("deer") and capra ("she-goat"). [2] [4] The vernacular name "blackbuck" is a reference to the dark brown to black colour of the dorsal part of the coat of the males. [5] The earliest recorded use of this name dates back to 1850. [6]
Seneca white deer inside the depot. The Seneca white deer are a rare herd of deer living within the confines of the former Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York.When the 10,600-acre (43 km 2) depot was created in 1941, a 24-mile (39 km) fence was erected around its perimeter, isolating a small herd of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), some of which had white coats.
Approximately 300 Columbian white-tailed deer live on the refuge per the last count. Another 300-400 deer live on private lands along the river. The areas upstream from the refuge on Puget Island and on the Oregon side of the river are vital to reestablishing and maintaining viable populations of the species. The refuge works with private and ...