| North American White Tailed Deer | | | | 15. Whitetails have an average life span of 8 to 11 |
| 31 Facts about Whitetail Deer and Whitetail Deer | | | | years. North American White Tailed Deer |
| Hunting. Whitetail Deer have a top speed of 35-40 | | | | 16. Deer do not have a gall bladder on their livers. |
| MPH and they do not have gall bladders. Want to | | | | This allows them to eat vegetation that would kill |
| know more? | | | | domestic animals. |
| 1.Based on hunter reports, about one deer in | | | | 17. The members of the deer family are |
| 30,000 is an albino. | | | | ruminants, having a four-compartmented |
| 2.Melanistic deer are very dark sometimes even | | | | stomach, which allows the deer to feed very |
| black and results from overproduction of pigment | | | | rapidly. |
| and is less common than albinism. | | | | 18. A Whitetail has a top speed between 35 to 40 |
| 3.Albinism is a recessive trait and both parents | | | | miles per hour. |
| must carry the gene before it can occur in their | | | | 19. A deer's gestation period is 200 to 205 days, |
| offspring. | | | | most of the fawns being born in the latter part of |
| 4.The speed at which antlers grow, also makes | | | | May or the first part of June. |
| them the fastest growing structures in the animal | | | | 20. Deer need 10 to 12 pounds of food per day |
| kingdom. | | | | to satisfy their needs. |
| 5.Antler growth is usually complete by the end of | | | | 21. The Whitetail Deer is the most abundant Big |
| August | | | | Game animal in North America. |
| 6.The deer genus was given the name Odocoileus | | | | 22. The average whitetail stands between 36 and |
| by Rafinesque in 1832 | | | | 40 inches high at the top of the shoulder. |
| 7.A doe giving birth in areas of good food will | | | | 23. The Florida Key deer, Odocoileus virginianus |
| have twins. However triplets are common as well | | | | clovium, is the smallest sub-species of our native |
| as occasional quadruplets. North American White | | | | deer. North American White Tailed Deer |
| Tailed Deer | | | | 24. There is one authenticated record of a deer |
| 8.Largest body weight on record of a Whitetail | | | | kept in captivity that lived to be nineteen years |
| deer is 511 pounds. | | | | old. |
| 9.Recent Estimates put the Deer Population in the | | | | 25. A deer can clear an 8-foot hurdle from a |
| United States at around 30 million animals | | | | standing position. |
| 10. The whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus), is | | | | 26. Deer swim well and at a good pace. They |
| named for it's signature tail and the white under | | | | have been clocked at speeds up to 13 miles per |
| part. | | | | hour. |
| 11. According to scientists there are 38 | | | | 27. At birth a baby doe weighs about 4 1/2 |
| Sub-species of Whitetail Deer. | | | | pounds while a buck weighs 5 1/2 pounds. |
| 12. A whitetail buck usually weighs 130 to 220 | | | | 28. The fawns are born over a period of time |
| pounds, but have been recorded at well over 350 | | | | that may extend from ten minutes up to two |
| Pounds. | | | | hours. |
| 13. Market gunning, unregulated hunting and poor | | | | 29. By the time the fawns are twenty minutes |
| land-use practices severely depressed deer | | | | old, they can walk slowly on very shaky legs. |
| populations in the early 1900s. By about 1930 the | | | | 30. Recent Estimates put the Deer Population in |
| U.S. population was thought to number about | | | | the United States at around 30 million animals |
| 300,000 animals. | | | | 31. About 40 percent of the young does may |
| 14. A Whitetail buck will shed his antlers every | | | | breed in their first autumn so that they give birth |
| year, usually sometime in late December through | | | | when they are one year old. |
| Feb. | | | | |