neat facts about whitetail deer

[Custer]

We are overrun in Ohio including the suburbs and urban areas.

When I was a kid, we saw one once at our archery club and that became a family story. Now I see deer almost every day.

[Van/TX]

Yep, right in the old boiler room   ...Van

[gregg dudley]

Don Stokes, I have seen or read the point about island deer eating fish, but can't cite the source?  Do you have anything on it?

[gregg dudley]

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/news/press/ontape.htm

[JEJ]

The sight of a large whitetail buck in November by male bowhunters often causes jaws to drop, eyes to bug out, blood pressure to increase, heart rate to accelerate …  this is known medically as the “Shakira” syndrome, and a cure has yet to be found.    

[Don Stokes]

Sorry, Gregg, I read about it several years ago in reference to an island up in the Northeast, but I can't remember the details.

After viewing your link, I guess deer have eaten all the bobwhite quail that have disappeared from the local habitat.    

[Bruce Martin]

A recent study of fawn mortality in SC was done at the Savannah River Site and reported something like 80% mortality and most of that from coyotes.

[toddster]

whitetail deer sense of smell is 25 times better than a dog.  There vision, though controversial, is color blind and see more on a plain of a newspaper, but notice motion, quicker than anything.  No matter how fast an arrow fly's, a nervouse whitetail can still drop below its flight.  A whitetail that is about 200 pounds can walk through the woods and make 1,000 times less noise than a 2 pound squirrel, and has th ability to disappear from view standing behind a bush or few saplings.