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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 December 2024. Species of hooved mammal White-tailed deer Male (buck or stag) Female (doe) O. v. nelsoni with juveniles (fawns) Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Secure (NatureServe) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order ...
Toggle Factors affecting the gestation period in mammals subsection. ... Deer (white-tailed) (Odocoileus virginianus) 201 Dog (Canis familiaris) 58 65 61
A female will give birth to one to three fawns, after a 6-month gestation period. After about 3 months, the young will leave their parents. White tailed deer typically live about three years but can live up to 15 years. White-tailed deer exemplify a "k-selection" species.
Colder temperatures outside is a good indication that white-tailed deer season in Texas is approaching. The general season officially begins on Saturday, Nov. 4 and ends on Jan. 7, 2024 for the ...
Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behaviour, and Ecology. Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-0496-0. Jim Heffelfinger (8 September 2006). Deer of the Southwest: A Complete Guide to the Natural History, Biology, and Management of Southwestern Mule Deer and White. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-60344-533-7. David G. Hewitt (24 June 2011).
One study of white-tailed deer found that death rates for young deer were twice as high in areas with fire ants as in uninfested areas. In Louisiana, the spread of fire ants has been linked to the decline of the loggerhead shrike and some species of warblers. The red fire ant has replaced nearly half the native insect species in some areas it ...
Mule deer: western half of North America. Odocoileus pandora: Yucatan brown brocket: Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize) Odocoileus virginianus: White-tailed deer: throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America, and northern portions of South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia. [5]
Despite this, the mtDNA of the white-tailed deer and mule deer is similar, but differs from that of the black-tailed deer. [9] This may be the result of introgression, although hybrids between the mule deer and white-tailed deer are rare in the wild (apparently more common locally in West Texas), and the hybrid survival rate is low even in ...