The Black-tailed deer, or Blacktail deer, (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) is a subspecies of the Mule Deer The 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. Adult male mule deer are called bucks, adult females are called does, and young of both sexes are called fawns. The black-tailed deer is considered by some a distinct species though it is classified as a subspecies of the found in western North America North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast. North, specifically in the Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America, bound by the Pacific Ocean to the west. Always included are the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. Southeast Alaska, Idaho, western Montana and northern California are often included region.
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Range
Black-tailed deer once lived at least as far east as Wyoming. In Francis Parkman Francis Parkman was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism. He was also a leading's The Oregon Trail, an eyewitness account of his 1846 trek across the early West, while within a two-days ride from Fort Laramie, Parkman writes of shooting what he believes to be an elk The elk, or wapiti , is one of the largest species of deer in the world and one of the largest mammals in North America and eastern Asia. In the deer family (Cervidae), only the moose, Alces alces (called an "elk" in Europe), is larger, and Cervus unicolor (the sambar deer) can rival the C. canadensis elk in size. Elk are almost, only to discover that he has killed a Black-tailed Deer.[1]
The Black-tailed deer is currently common in northern California, western Oregon, Washington, in coastal and interior British Columbia The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada and the second-largest in the Pacific Northwest. In 2009, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,419,974, and north into the Alaskan panhandle. There remains confusion, however, over its proper classification. It is a popular game animal.
Ecology
This species thrives on the edge of the forest, as the dark forest lacks the underbrush and grasslands that the deer prefers as food, and completely open areas lack the hiding spots and the cover it prefers for harsh weather. One of the plants that black-tailed deer browse is western poison oak Toxicodendron diversilobum is a plant best known for its ability to cause allergic rashes after contact. Western Poison-oak is found only on the Pacific Coast of the United States and of Canada. It is extremely common in that region, where it is the predominant species of the genus; the closely related Atlantic Poison-oak (T. pubescens) occurs on, despite its allergen content.[2] This deer often is most active at dawn and dusk, and is frequently involved in collisions with automobiles.
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References
- ^ Francis Parkman (1910) The Oregon Trail, Ginn and company, 361 pages
- ^ C.Michael Hogan (2008) Western poison-oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum, GlobalTwitcher, ed. Nicklas Stromberg [1]
External links
- Media related to Black-tailed Deer at Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of images, sound and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, from which uploaded files can be used across all Wikimedia projects in all languages, including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikinews, or downloaded for offsite use. The repository contains over 6 million media
- Excerpts from the book Black-tailed Deer of California
- Black-tailed Deer at BritishColumbia.com
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and 120 pounds for bucks although dressed weight bucks of over 200 pounds 90 1 kg have been reported according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Jim Lewis 2006 During summer deer generally feed on herbaceous vegetation and the green leaves of shrubs During winter they are restricted to evergreen
Q. Just curious I read an article about this this horse and Moose that corssbred. The foal looked like a horse but had the head of a moose and I think it had moose hooves too. It was pretty cute. But one thing though Moose are in the deer family, Could another type of deer could crossbreed with a horse? I have read about a Zebra crossbreeding with a horse and white tailed deer breeding with a black tailed one.
Asked by Checkers- the -Wolf - Sat Mar 15 17:24:39 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments
A. I heard about that too but I think it turned out to be a hoax. Just a foal with deformities. They're not closely related enough to cross breed. Although that doesn't mean the animals won't try. Where I'm from Moose were introduced. There is an urban legend that a moose swam to a small island and decided to live there. When mating season came he tried to mate with the local dairy cows only to be chased away by the farmers.
Answered by Shelley - Sat Mar 15 20:23:35 2008
