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.