White Tail fawn
by Inge Riis McDonald
Title
White Tail fawn
Artist
Inge Riis McDonald
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Young fawn in our backyard, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island.
The graceful white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus is well known to most North Americans. Hunters and nonhunters alike recognize the animal by its habit of flourishing its tail over its back, revealing a stark white underside and white buttocks. This "flag" of the white-tailed deer is often glimpsed as the high spirited animal dashes away from people. The tail has a broad base and is almost a foot long. When lowered, it is brown with a white fringe.
In summer, the white-tailed deer has a reddish pelage, or fur, on its back and sides and is whitish beneath. In winter the upper parts turn greyish. Full grown male deer frequently exceed 1 m at shoulder height and 110 kg in weight, with exceptional individuals weighing up to 200 kg in the northern part of their range.
The antlers of the mature male white-tail consist of a forward curving main beam from which single points project upward and often slightly inward. Perhaps one of every 1 000 females also bears small, simple antlers.
To know:
The White tailed deer is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all North America’s large animals
It leaves its fawn unattended for hours at a time.
It may have difficulty surviving the winter, particularly if there are too many deer competing for food or if snow is deep.
It occasionally gets its antlers hopelessly entangled with those of another male during a mating season battle, resulting in the slow death of both animals
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January 5th, 2013
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