deer

     

Capreolinae/Oocoileinae Cervinae Hydropotinae Muntiacinae

Trivia about deer

  • One variety of the white-tailed species of this weighs only 50-75 pounds & lives in the Florida Keys
  • Buckskin was originally made from the mule & white-tailed species of this ungulate
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "The Yearling" centers on this type of pet
  • The megaloceros was the largest one of these mammals that ever lived; it was over 10 feet tall & had 11-foot antlers
  • Unlike most others in this animal family, female caribou grow antlers, which they shed each year
  • Beware of staring into headlights is your sign is Cervus, this animal
  • The white-tailed species of this animal is the only large game mammal in the state today
  • Wow! Illinois' state animal, the white-tailed this, can jump 9-foot fences
  • Nebraska's state mammal is the white-tailed this
  • The Virginia or white-tailed species of this is found as far south as South America
  • The tick species Ixodes dammini has as its favorite hosts white-footed mice & white-tailed these
  • The scientific name of the European stag beetle is Lucanus cervus; cervus is Latin for this mammal
  • Cervine
  • A provider of meat:venado
  • One variety of the white-tailed species of this lives in the Florida Keys & weighs only 50 to 75 pounds
  • "Cervine" means like this ruminant