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Did you know?
- White-tailed deer are browse for food at dawn and dusk.
- White-tailed deer have good eyesight and hearing.
- Only male deer grow antlers, which are shed each year.
- White-tail deer are good swimmers and will use large streams and lakes to escape predators.
- A young deer is called a fawn.
- How old do white tails get?
- Are white tails colorblind?
- How long do white tail deer live?
- What do white tails like to eat?
- Where do white tails live?
- How far can a whitetail deer see?
- Can whitetail see green light?
- What colors do dogs see?
- How much do Whitetails sleep?
- How old is a deer with 6 points?
- How far can a deer hear?
- Where do white tail deer come from?
- What kind of eaters are whitetail deer?
- What is a deer's favorite smell?
How old do white tails get?
Lifespan/Longevity
Most white-tailed deer live about 2 to 3 years. Maximum life span in the wild is 20 years but few live past 10 years old.
Are white tails colorblind?
The only area they can't see is the 50- to 60-degree cone behind them. ... Without talking too technically about rods, cones, nanometers, color spectrums, and short and long light wavelengths, we know this: Whitetails can distinguish blue from red, but not green from red or orange from red.
How long do white tail deer live?
Most white-tailed deer live about 2 to 3 years. Maximum life span in the wild is 20 years but few live past 10 years old.
What do white tails like to eat?
White-tailed deer are herbivores, according to the website for the National Geographic Society. These mostly nocturnal grazers aren't too picky about the types of plants they feed on. Some staples of the white-tailed deer include grass, nuts, twigs, alfalfa, corn, fruit and fungi.
Where do white tails live?
Where do white-tailed spiders live? The Lampona genus is abundant, with some 60 species distributed throughout Australia. According to the 2003 study, L. cylindrata can be found across southern Australia, in southeast Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and southern Western Australia.
How far can a whitetail deer see?
Eyesight. Using a typical eye exam, a deer would have 20/100 vision. This means at 20 feet, a deer can see as well as a human can at 100 feet.
Can whitetail see green light?
Cohen found that deer see blue colors best and red colors the worst. Deer can also see greens, yellows and UV light, but they can't differentiate color shades to that extent that humans can. ... You should also avoid wearing camouflage with a lot of white, because white reflects all colors, including blue.
What colors do dogs see?
Dogs possess only two types of cones and can only discern blue and yellow - this limited color perception is called dichromatic vision.
How much do Whitetails sleep?
How long deer sleep varies. Generally, they sleep less than five or 10 minutes, although some trail camera evidence has shown deer sleeping for nearly 20 minutes. A typical whitetail deer sleep cycle includes a cyclical routine of dozing, then snapping to attention.
How old is a deer with 6 points?
The “old 6 point” is a deer that nearly every property has had sometime in the past or will in the future. They are the deer that are always joked about sitting around the campfire during hunting season. On my property I have set my harvest standards to focus on bucks that are 4.5 years old or older.
How far can a deer hear?
But hunters should never forget a deer can actually hear sounds better than humans. Back to the scrape of an arrow on a bow's rest. A hunter can hear it up close, for sure, and maybe as far as 10 feet away.
Where do white tail deer come from?
The white-tailed deer is native to North America, Central America, and South America. In North America, the white-tailed deer ranges from southern Yukon and Northwest Territories, across the southern provinces of Canada, and southward throughout most of the conterminous United States.
What kind of eaters are whitetail deer?
Deer eat a variety of food types, including browse (leafy parts of woody plants), forbs (herbaceous broad-leaved plants, including agricultural crops), hard and soft mast (seeds), grass and mushrooms/lichens.
What is a deer's favorite smell?
Liquid Doe Urine
Doe urine in the liquid form is probably the most common attractant scent used by deer hunters. It is good for calming deer's nerves and piquing their curiosity, since it simulates a new deer in the area. Since it is a common smell in the woods, it very seldom scares deer—bucks or does.
