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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
It is a medium-sized deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia. Pages in category "White-tailed deer" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The two major species of deer found in North America are the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). The most important sense in these animals is olfaction (the sense of smell)—so much so that they have an accessory olfaction system .
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).
White-tailed deer can be found in all but two of the state's 254 counties. Any ranch or open ranch in South Texas is a good place to hunt for white-tailed deer.
Biology and management of white-tailed deer / edited by David G. Hewitt. Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2011. 674 p. (ISBN:9781439806517) (OCLC:731192045)
A white deer from species such as fallow deer, roe deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, or rusa, is instead referred to as a “white buck” or “white doe”. The all-white coloration is the result of leucism, a condition that causes hair and skin to lose its natural pigmentation. The white deer has played a prominent role in the ...
The Cervinae or the Old World deer, are a subfamily of deer.Alternatively, they are known as the plesiometacarpal deer, due to having lost the parts of the second and fifth metacarpal bones closest to the foot (though retaining the parts away from the foot), distinct from the telemetacarpal deer of the Capreolinae (which have instead retained these parts of those metacarpals, while losing the ...