The white-tailed deer of north america
1961; PERSEE Program; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/revec.1961.4254
ISSN0040-3865
Autores Tópico(s)Rangeland and Wildlife Management
ResumoBy far the most popular and widespread of North America's big game animais is the deer, genus Odocoileus.Found from Great Slave Lake and the 60th parallel of latitude in Canada to Panama and even into northern South America, and from the Atlantic to the Pacifie, the deer, including the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virgi nianus ssp., see map.) and the mule deer, (Odocoileus hemionus ssp.) with, of course, the coast deer of the Pacifie area (a form of hemionus), is characterized by a geographic range far more extensive than any other big game mammal of our continent.Within this tremendous area the deer occurs in a considerable variety of habitats, being found in appro priate locations from sea level to timberline in the moun tains, and in all the life zones from Tropical to Hudsonian.The whitetail is found in the swamps of Okefinokee, in the grasslands of the Gulf Coast, in the hardwood forests of the east, and in the spruce-fir-hemlock woodlands of the western mountains.It inhabits plains country, rocky plateaus, and rough hilly terrain.The deer resembles the coyote, the raccoon, the opos sum and the gray fox in its ability to adapt itself suffi ciently to the settlements of mankind to survive and even to spread, within the boundaries of cities.It is one of the easiest of all the game animais to maintain.It is also one of the most valuable of all our species of wildlife,
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