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The antlers were scored for the first time on August 27, 1983 by Phil Wright, chairman of the Boone & Crockett Scoring Committee. The initial score came out to be 342 3/8 non-typical points. Based upon the initial score, North American Whitetail Magazine declared the buck as the new world-record in the December 1983 issue of their magazine. [3]
Male O. v. nelsoni with antlers in velvet. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes. [3]
The Boreal forest and its alpine cousins are host to a wide variety of deer, ranging from the large moose to the whitetail deer. All of these large herbivores prefer the cool forest lest they overheat in the sun, but all need open land on which to graze. Of the deer, moose are perhaps best adapted to wetlands and thrive in the boggy boreal forest.
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Whitetail Deer. Reindeer. Classification. Species: Odocoileus virginianus Species: Rangifer tarandus Native to. The Americas. The Arctic, subarctic, tundra. Fur ...
North America and northern South America Size : 150–200 cm (59–79 in) long, plus 10–28 cm (4–11 in) tail [ 41 ] Habitat : Forest, savanna, shrubland, grassland, inland wetlands, desert, neritic marine, intertidal marine, and coastal marine [ 42 ]
The first column of the table is for those denoted as the state mammal, and the second shows the state marine mammals. Animals with more specific designations are also listed. Many states also have separately officially designated state birds , state fish , state butterflies , state reptiles , and other animals .