WhiteTailed Deer

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White-Tailed Deer

• By
• Matthew Loso
• October 2008

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Classification System

• Kingdom Animalia
• Phylum Chordata
• Class Mamilia
• Order Artiodactyla
• Family Cervidae
• Genus Odocoileus
• Species Virginianus

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Habitat

• North, South America, Europe, Asia
• Farmland
• Grassy land
• Forest
• Riparian
• Grass, water, food
• Lays in grass
• Mostly found North America
• 15 20 million live United States
• Northern Canada
• Peru
• New Zealand

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Shelter

• Live mostly in grass holes
• Covers young for protection
• Makes a circle in grass

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Diet

• Herbivore
• Plants
• Twigs, Bushes, Grass, Fruit, Acorns, Mushrooms
• Water
• Walks around riparian places
• Mother feeds young milk
• Leaves young to find food for 12 hr.
• Young nibbles on plants

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Adaptations

• Can see almost all around
• Hear good
• Smell from far distance
• 3 feet tall 4 years old
• 220 330 pounds
• Good leapers and swimmers
• 10 12 years old wild
• Tails go up if smells predator
• Less food in winter stay still save energy
• See far find food
• Shy
• Run 30 mph

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Fun and Unusual Facts

• Doe shed hair early fall
• Deer tick causes disease called Lyme disease
• In winter hair turns brownish gray, In summer
  hair turns reddish brown
• Deer stomach lighter color than back
• Tip of tail white
• Also called Virginia Deer
• 4 chambers stomach
• Dont chew well before swallowing
• Dont pollute water, Dont cut down trees, Dont
  hunt

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Works Cited

• Patent, Dorothy H. White-Tailed Deer.
  Minneapolis, MN Lerner. 2005.
• NatureWorks. Update N/A. New Hampshire Public
  Television. 30 Sept. 2008 lthttp//www.nhptv.org/n
  atureworks/nw4.htmgt
• Raedeke, Kenneth J. Deer. World Book. 2006.
  2006.