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White-tailed deer from the tropics and the Florida Keys are markedly smaller-bodied than temperate populations, averaging 35 to 50 kg (77 to 110 lb), with an occasional adult female as small as 25 kg (55 lb). [16] White-tailed deer from the Andes are larger than other tropical deer of this species and have thick, slightly woolly-looking fur ...
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).
The definitive host is the white-tailed deer, in which it normally has no ill effects. Snails and slugs, the intermediate hosts, can be inadvertently consumed by elk during grazing. [65] The liver fluke Fascioloides magna and the nematode Dictyocaulus viviparus are also commonly found parasites that can be fatal to elk. [66]
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
The Columbian white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus leucurus) [2] is one of the several subspecies of white-tailed deer in North America. It is a member of the Cervidae (deer) family, which includes mule deer , elk , moose , caribou , and the black-tailed deer that live nearby.
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 ...
So this year, the whitetail rut of 2024 should unfold as it did in 2005, 1986 and 1967, the 19-year increments. Whitetails, and actually other “short-day breeders” like sheep and other ...
The family Cervidae consists of 55 extant species belonging to 19 genera in 2 subfamilies and divided into dozens of extant subspecies. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species.