White-tailed Deer Images

White-tailed Deer Images, Facts and Information:

Odocoileus virginianus

  • White-tailed Deer are reddish-brown in the spring and summer and turns to a grey-brown throughout the fall and winter. The deer can be recognized by the characteristic white underside to its tail.
  • In North America, White-tailed Deer are widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains as well as in southwestern Arizona and most of Mexico, except Lower California.
  • Although most often thought of as forest animals depending on relatively small openings and edges, White-tailed Deer can equally adapt themselves to life in more open prairie, savanna woodlands, and sage communities as in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
  • White-tailed deer eat large amounts of food, commonly eating legumes and foraging on other plants, including shoots, leaves, cacti (in deserts), prairie forbs and grasses. They also eat acorns, fruit, and corn.
  • Female White-tailed Deer give birth to one to three spotted young, known as fawns, in mid- to late spring, generally in May or June.
  • White-tailed Deer can live to 16 years in the wild but they usually don’t live past 10 years of age.

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