White Tailed Deer
What can run up to 40 mph and swim up to 13 mph.
White-tailed deer are the smallest members of the North American deer family.
Characteristics. The white-tailed deer is tan or brown in the summer and grayish brown in winter. It has white on its throat, around its eyes and nose, on its stomach and on the underside of its tail which it displays and wags when it senses danger. The male has antlers. Males are called Bucks and weigh between 150 and 300 pounds and females called Doe’s and weigh between 90 and 200 pounds. The female will have 1 baby called a fawn when she is about 1 ½ years old, after that she will have twins. She usually gives birth in April or May. Her gestation period is 201 days.
Fawns are reddish-brown at birth with white spots that help camouflage them. They can walk at birth and forage for food a couple of days later. They are weaned at about six weeks. The mother leaves her fawns well-hidden for hours at a time while she feeds. If she has more than one fawn, she hides them in separate places. While they are waiting for their mother to return, the fawns lay on the ground with their heads and necks stretched out flat on the ground. This makes it harder for predators to find them. Female fawns may stay with their mother for two years, males usually leave after a year.
White-tailed deer are pretty fast. A white-tail deer can run at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour and they are good swimmers and can swim up to 13 mile per hour.
Once a white-tail deer has found a place with enough food, it will stay close by, the white-tailed deer has a relatively small home range of about one square mile or less. White-tailed deer are herbivores, leisurely grazing on most available plant foods. Their stomachs allow them to digest a varied diet, including leaves, twigs, fruits and nuts, grass, corn, alfalfa. The most common place a deer will live is in a wooded area. Most white tailed deer live about 4-5 years. The maximum life span in the wild is 20 years, but a few deer live past 10 years old.
White-tailed deer have good eyesight and hearing, they also have as many teeth as humans. Colorado's white-tailed deer populations are primarily located in the eastern portion of the state with a few pockets in the central mountain areas. The white-tailed deer is also known as the Virginia deer and is native to North America. ... White-tailed deer antlers grow from a main beam and their tines do not branch off.
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