White-tailed deer diet
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White-tailed deer habitat
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Ask any child about deer, and Bambi, the fawn1 in Walt Disney’s beloved animated movie of the same name, will inevitably come up. Bambi and his family lived way out in the wild, but many real-life fawns and their families have moved into suburbs, cities and maybe into your own yard.
The “wild” is getting smaller, and all it takes is a neighborhood with twenty acres or more that offers what they need for survival. Sadly for them, human development keeps squeezing deer habitat, so they sometimes have no better place to go.
Background
White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus, are mammals in the order Artiodactyla (ART-ee-oh-DACK-tuh-luh, which means even-toed animals) and the family Cervidae (SER-vuh-dee), which includes Moose, Elk, reindeer (known as Caribou in North America), and others.
Their genus is Odocoileus, from the Greek for “hollow tooth.” And the word “deer” is from Old English dor, meaning “beast.” Like “Moose” and “Sheep,” deer is both singular and plural.
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