Did you ever wonder why the deer has an antler with branches? This animal is one of a kind because of its inique appearance. It is its antler that made the deer different from other animals.
Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Most male deer grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned animals.
There are many kinds and some of them are,
Mule deer-is a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. It gets its name from its large mule-like ears. The black -tailed deer is considered by some a distinct species though it is classified as a subspecies of a Mule Deer. They generally more associated with the land west of the missouri River. The mule deer tail is black tipped. Their antlers are bifurcated, or “fork” as they grow rather than branching from a single main beam. Each year a buck's antlers start to grow in spring and are shed after mating season from mid-January to mid-April. Mule deer bucks have somewhat more prominent ears than females. Instead of running, mule deer move with a bounding leap (stout), with all four feet coming down together.
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Black deer-more accurately rteffered to as melanistic deer, are very rare across North America, they are spotted more frequently in Central Texas. Melanistic whitetails ae very rare, even more rare than piebalb or albino deer. You can recognize it because of their bodies produce far too much of the pigment of known melanin which makes them much darker than average white tale.
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White-tailed deer-also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail. It is a medium-sized deer native to the United States (all but five of the states), Canada, Mexico, Central America as far as South Peru.
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Red deer-is one of the largest deer spoecies. The Red deer inhabits most of Europe, Asia Minor and parts of western and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa.
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Moose or European Elk- is the largest extantspecies in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers af the males; other members of the family have antlers with a (twig-like)configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal and mixed deciduous forests of the Norethern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climate.
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These are but just few of the different kinds of deer. What ever kind of deer we have in our place, the most important thing is that we should know how to preserve them and not to hunt them.
Resources: en.wikipedia.org
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