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They are a browsing species, capable of eating a huge variety of grasses and leaves and other vegetative matter, which they digest in their four-chambered ruminant stomach.  Deer like to eat acorns, berry brambles, yew, sweet ground covers and scores of other plants; if necessary they will also eat poison ivy, twigs or tree bark.  
 
They are a browsing species, capable of eating a huge variety of grasses and leaves and other vegetative matter, which they digest in their four-chambered ruminant stomach.  Deer like to eat acorns, berry brambles, yew, sweet ground covers and scores of other plants; if necessary they will also eat poison ivy, twigs or tree bark.  
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In spring and summer they feed on green leaves, herbs, weeds and grasses more than on browse species. The reverse is true in fall and winter. Deer are browsers and eat a great variety of vegetable matter, including fresh green leaves, twigs, lower branches of trees, and various grasses. They are particularly fond of [[blackberry]] and [[raspberry]] vines, [[grapes]], [[eggplant]], [[mistletoe]], [[mushroom]]s, and [[fern]]s. They eat so carefully they can even consume the fruit of [[cactus]].  
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In spring and summer they feed on green leaves, herbs, weeds and grasses more than on browse species. The reverse is true in fall and winter. Deer are browsers and eat a great variety of vegetable matter, including fresh green leaves, twigs, lower branches of trees, and various grasses. They are particularly fond of [[blackberry]] and [[raspberry]] vines, [[grapes]], [[eggplant]], [[mistletoe]], [[mushroom]]s, and [[fern]]s. They eat so carefully they can even consume the fruit of [[cactus]].
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[[Image:Muledeer.jpg|thumb|310px|male (left) and female (right) mule deer]]
    
==Breeding==
 
==Breeding==
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