Whitetailed Deer

White-tailed deer are one of the best known and most easily recognized large mammals. Mature whitetails grow to about 3 – 3 ½ feet tall at the shoulders and approximately 4 ½ -6 ¾ feet in length. Mature male whitetails grow to be between 200-300 pounds and females to 70-200 pounds. The males, or “bucks”, have antlers consisting of one main beam with minor branches. These antlers are shed from January to March and begin to grow again in April or May. During late summer and early fall, the skin on the antlers, called velvet, begins to deteriorate. The velvet is very itchy and the deer will rub its antlers on anything possible just to stop the horrible itch. The age of a whitetail cannot be told by the size of th

The white-tailed deer has two close relatives, the mule deer and the black-tailed deer. Mule deer and blacktails are very similar to whitetails in many ways. The biggest physical difference between the three is the size. The black-tailed deer is the smallest of the three where the mule deer is the largest, leaving the whitetail in the middle. Blacktails are named after their blacktails, and also characterized as the darkest of the deer species. Mule deer are quite a bit larger than whitetails weighing up to 400 pounds. Mule deer are named after their ears, which are much larger than both whitetails and blacktails.

Whitetails have made an incredible rebound from the turn of the century when they were almost at the point of extinction. There are somewhere between 8 and 15 million white-tailed deer on North America due to the improvement of their habitat. Whitetails are very amazing creatures to have living on Earth and will live for many more years by adapting to the changing environment they live in.

White-tailed deer are commonly hunted for meat and sport. Early settlers and Native Americans also utilized white-tailed deer hides to make buckskin leather. Whitetails heads are also commonly mounted on the walls of lodges and other places of outdoor recreation. Negative effects whitetails display are destruction to crops, vegetable gardens, and fruit trees. When the whitetail population becomes too high, they can cause serious damage to forest vegetation through over browsing. Whitetails are often involved in vehicle accidents, many times resulting in serious injury to the occupants of the vehicle.

White-tailed deer are extremely cautious and wary animals with highly develo

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