No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...

White-tailed deer in North America are back to their precolonial population levels. John Woodhouse Audubon/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Given their abundance in American backyards, ...

Pennsylvania's state animal is the white-tailed deer.Native Americans and settlers relied on them for food and clothing.Today, they continue to flourish in forests across the Commonwealth.Related ...

Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a century ago. While they ...

The first part of the common name refers to the 6-11 inches, bushy tail which the animal erects when disturbed, displaying the white hairs of the outer edge and under surface. Long, slender legs - ...

(The Conversation) – Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a century ago ...

The white-tailed deer is tan or brown in the summer and grayish brown in winter. The white-tailed deer is tan or brown in the summer and grayish brown in winter. Video courtesy of U.S. Fish and ...

Now that spring seems to be arriving (more slowly in some places than in others) in the Northern Hemisphere, more people are venturing out into nature. But when we wander around in wooded areas or ...

This near-disappearance of deer was much discussed at the time. In 1854, Henry David Thoreau had written that no deer had been hunted near Concord, Massachusetts, for a generation. In his famous ...