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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 and Sierra Nevada Ranges in Oregon and California, black-tailed deer are replaced by mule deer which have a different tail pattern.
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 ...
Range maps are provided wherever possible; if a range map is not available, a description of the cervid's range is provided. ... (Black-tailed deer) O. h. eremicus ...
Black-tailed deer are abundant. Pronghorn, grizzly bears, and wolves were extirpated in the 1800s. There still are numerous coyotes and some of the more vital mountain lion populations in the state. There are excellent populations of bobcats and gray foxes, which depend on the chaparral habitat.
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).
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 ...
Black-tailed deer. The black-tailed deer sub-species (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) is found in the park. Order: Artiodactyla, Family: Cervidae. Occurrence: Open forests, meadows, often at high elevations - C. The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. It gets its name from its large ...
Black-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus californicus; White-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus townsendii; Desert cottontail, ... White-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus; Bovids