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White-tailed Deer
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White-tailed Deer
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is the most populous and most hunted big game species in North America's. It is also the most researched game animal in North America. As a result of this we know more about white-tailed deer than any other big game animal in the America's. White-tailed deer reach lengths of 4-7 feet, heights of 3-4 feet, males weigh 100-400 pounds, females 75-250, live 5-10 years. Breed October through January, gestation 6-7 months, 1-4 fawns each year, usually born May to June. Both sexes grunt, snort and blow, fawns bleat. Males carry antlers with one main beam, with 2-6+ points on each beam. Tracks are 2-3 inches long, hind hoof slightly smaller, hind hoof often lands in or near front hoof when walking. Droppings are often clumped or segmented cylinders in the spring and summer, and pellets during the fall and winter. During the fall/rut males rub trees and thrash brush with their antlers, and chew low-hanging branches over scrapes on the ground that older males often urinate in after pawing them with their front hooves. They use these signs as a means of expressing dominance and leaving an indication of their presence for females in estrous.
There are 38 recognized subspecies of whitetails occurring in North, Central and South America, with 17 subspecies in the United States. Five of these subspecies are limited populations on islands off the southeastern coastal regions. White-tailed deer inhabit all of the lower 48 states, with limited populations in Nevada, Utah and California. They also inhabit all of the Canadian Provinces except the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. They inhabit all of Central America, with the exception of the Baja Peninsula. They also inhabit the northern areas of South America.
The whitetails of North America range in size from the large northern woodland (O. v. borealis), Dakota (O. v. dakotensis), northwest (O. v. ochrorus) subspecies of the northern states and Canada to the small Florida Key deer (O. v. clavium) of the Florida Keys, the Carmen Mountains/Fantail deer (O. v. carmenis) and the Coues deer (O. v. couesi) subspecies of Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico. The Columbian deer (O. v. leucurus) subspecies of Washington, and the Key deer (O. v. clavium) subspecies of southern Florida Keys were both on the Endangered Species List in 1989. |
