Canadian Mammals   View all facts

mammal > cloven-hoofed mammal > deer > white-tailed deer

white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
subject			fact

white-tailed deer	can weigh more than 110 kg
	eats leaves, herbs, grass, fiddleheads, mushrooms, blueberries, acorns, twigs, buds
	has colour summer: red on the back and sides and white below, winter: grey above
	has height 1 m at the shoulder
	has population density more than three deer per square kilometer
	has range as far north as Great Slave Lake and from Cape Breton Island westward to south-central British Columbia
	has scientific name Odocoileus virginianus
	has subspecies northern white-tailed deer, Dakota white-tailed deer, tawny northwestern white-tailed deer
	is a kind of deer
deer	chews its cud
cloven-hoofed mammal	has Order name Order Artiodactyla
mammal	is warm-blooded
	may catch rabies

Kinds of white-tailed deer :

• female white-tailed deer (7 facts)
• male white-tailed deer (5 facts)
• white-tailed deer fawn (3 facts)