White-tailed Deer, Pronghorn   

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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 (bucks) weigh 100-400 pounds, females (does) weigh 75-250. They may live 5-10 years. They may breed from September through January in Canada and the United States; later in Central ans South America. Their gestation period is 6-7 months, and they may have 1-4 fawns each year, usually born from May to June.

Both sexes grunt, snort and blow as a means of vocal communication; fawns bleat. They also use a number of scents (odors) to communicate sex, general age, hierarchical status and sexual readiness to breed. Males carry antlers, typically with one main beam on each side, with 2-6+ points on each beam. Their racks are 2-3 inches long, with the tracks of the rear hooves slightly smaller. Droppings (feces/scat) are often clumped or segmented cylinders in the spring and summer, and pellets during the fall and winter. During the fall/breeding season (rut) males rub trees and thrash brush with their antlers, and chew low-hanging branches over scraped/pawed areas on the ground - which older males often urinate in after pawing the ground with the front hooves. They use these signs as a means of expressing dominance and leaving a sign of a breeding male for females in estrus.

There are 38 recognized subspecies of white-tailed deer occurring in North, Central and South America, with 17 subspecies in the United States. Five of the North American 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) of Texas and Mexico 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.

Buck Scraping 1

Buck working Overhead Branch 2

Doe and Fawn 7325

Pronghorns (Antilocapra americana) are not antelope, and are not related to the African or Asian antelopes or any other family. They are the last survivors of a once widespread North American family known as Antilocapridae. Many of their ancestors had pronged horns on both the top of the head and on the upper nose.

Adult Pronghorns may be from 4-4 1/2 feet long, 3-3 1/2 feet high, males weigh 100-150 pounds, females 75-100 pounds. They live 5-10 years, breed from September through October, have a gestation period of 7-8 months, and generally 2 fawns born in May or June. Their color is light tan to reddish tan, with white cheek patches on chin, neck, chest, sides and rumps, ears are trimmed with black. Males have a dark patch under the lower jaw. Both males and females have horns; the males are larger. Their pronged horns, which range from 15-19 inches, are shed annually, and new ones re-grown; this is one of the few animals that shed horn. Tracks are 2 3/4 - 3 1/2 inches long and they have no dewclaws. They have glands at the base of each horn, a pair on the lower jaws, one on the croup (upper rump), on the tail, one on each hind leg, and one between each hoof. The North American population is 380,000+.

Pronghorns are an open-plains animal often found in areas of sagebrush, which is one of their main food supplies. They move a lot in search of food and generally go to water once a day, at about the same time every day. They also stay within a defined "home range." For some reason Pronghorns do not jump fences but may crawl through a fence.

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Pronghorn 6785

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