Deer - Revision history

DavidB4-bot: /* Further reading */HTTP --> HTTPS #3, replaced: http://www.amazon.com → https://www.amazon.com (2)

2019-04-09T07:11:15Z

Further reading: HTTP --> HTTPS #3, replaced: http://www.amazon.com → https://www.amazon.com (2)

DavidB4-bot: /* Further reading */HTTP --> HTTPS

2018-09-09T13:45:08Z

Karajou at 15:48, January 29, 2018

2018-01-29T15:48:49Z

DavidB4-bot: /* Behavior */Spelling/Grammar Check, typos fixed: useable → usable

2016-06-24T23:44:33Z

Behavior: Spelling/Grammar Check, typos fixed: useable → usable

DavidB4-bot: clean up

2016-06-24T23:01:20Z

clean up

TheAmericanRedoubt at 06:06, December 10, 2014

2014-12-10T06:06:27Z

Conservative: /* Further reading */

2014-10-31T10:17:34Z

AddisonDM at 04:27, June 28, 2009

2009-06-28T04:27:57Z

RJJensen: bibl

2009-04-25T14:09:07Z

bibl

RJJensen: /* Food */

2009-04-25T14:01:44Z

Food

@@ Line 48: / Line 48: @@
 * Liza Mundy, "Deer Heaven: Humans invented suburbia, but it is deer who may be its most enthusiastic residents," [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041702115.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national&sid=ST2009042303108 ''Washington Post'' April 26, 2009]
-* Leonard Lee Rue III, ''The Deer of North America'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592284655/sr=8-2/qid=1240668352/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1240668352&sr=8-2&seller= excerpt and text search]
+* Leonard Lee Rue III, ''The Deer of North America'' (2004) [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592284655/sr=8-2/qid=1240668352/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1240668352&sr=8-2&seller= excerpt and text search]
-* Leonard Lee Rue III, ''The Encyclopedia of Deer'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Deer-Leonard-Lee-Rue/dp/0896585905/ref=pd_sim_b_8 excerpt and text search]
+* Leonard Lee Rue III, ''The Encyclopedia of Deer'' (2004) [https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Deer-Leonard-Lee-Rue/dp/0896585905/ref=pd_sim_b_8 excerpt and text search]
 ==References==

@@ Line 47: / Line 47: @@
 ==Further reading==
-* Liza Mundy, "Deer Heaven: Humans invented suburbia, but it is deer who may be its most enthusiastic residents," [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041702115.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national&sid=ST2009042303108 ''Washington Post'' April 26, 2009]
+* Liza Mundy, "Deer Heaven: Humans invented suburbia, but it is deer who may be its most enthusiastic residents," [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041702115.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national&sid=ST2009042303108 ''Washington Post'' April 26, 2009]
 * Leonard Lee Rue III, ''The Deer of North America'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592284655/sr=8-2/qid=1240668352/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1240668352&sr=8-2&seller= excerpt and text search]
 * Leonard Lee Rue III, ''The Encyclopedia of Deer'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Deer-Leonard-Lee-Rue/dp/0896585905/ref=pd_sim_b_8 excerpt and text search]

@@ Line 54: / Line 54: @@
 {{reflist|2}}
+[[Category:Mammals]]
-[[Category:Animals]]
+[[Category:Artiodactyla]]

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 ==Behavior==
-Seasonal movements involving migrations from higher elevations ([[summer]] ranges) to lower winter ranges are associated, in part, with decreasing temperatures, severe snowstorms, and [[snow]] depths that reduce mobility and food supply. Deep snows ultimately limit useable range to a fraction of the total. Deer in the arid southwest may migrate in response to rainfall patterns.
+Seasonal movements involving migrations from higher elevations ([[summer]] ranges) to lower winter ranges are associated, in part, with decreasing temperatures, severe snowstorms, and [[snow]] depths that reduce mobility and food supply. Deep snows ultimately limit usable range to a fraction of the total. Deer in the arid southwest may migrate in response to rainfall patterns.
 Deer are highly adaptable, equipped with slender but muscular legs, and cloven hooves that allow them to easily leap, climb hillsides and keep their balance. They can get up on their hind legs to reach branches. They can jump fences as high as eight feet, or can squeeze under them. They can, if necessary, crawl.

@@ Line 30: / Line 30: @@
 The [[reindeer]] is domesticated and herded by the Lapps of Northern Scandinavia, and red deer and several other species are farmed for [[venison]] in Scotland and elsewhere.
 ==United States==
-Before 1600, deer were plentiful in North America. Native Americans hunted them, as did cougars and other large predators. Colonists, when they came, did the same and traded pelts to Europe. Later, market hunting -- killing deer to transport their meat to American cities -- severely reduced their numbers.  A hundred years ago there were  less than half a million white-tail and mule deer; deer were almost extinct in many parts of the country.
+Before 1600, deer were plentiful in North America. Native Americans hunted them, as did cougars and other large predators. Colonists, when they came, did the same and traded pelts to Europe. Later, market hunting—killing deer to transport their meat to American cities—severely reduced their numbers.  A hundred years ago there were  less than half a million white-tail and mule deer; deer were almost extinct in many parts of the country.
 Today there may be as many as 29 million. The maximum stable population is about 20 deer per square mile, but much higher densities appear in suburban areas, where they enjoy upscale meals from flower beds and landscaping.  Deer are an "edge species." They can handle different environments, but they prefer boundary regions between woods and grasslands. The deep center of a mature forest is not ideal for deer. They do better at the edge of a forest, where sunlight and ground vegetation are abundant, and where they can venture to browse in the open but retreat easily into cover.
-In 2000 -- the last time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did a count -- there were about 247,000 crashes involving animals, mostly deer, on American roadways. Annually, there are about 200 human fatalities involving a vehicle and an animal.   In the fall comes "the rut" -- bucks chasing does, sometimes for miles -- creates a surge in car collisions. In the summer, when fawns begin to follow their mothers, there will be another spike in accidents.
+In 2000—the last time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did a count—there were about 247,000 crashes involving animals, mostly deer, on American roadways. Annually, there are about 200 human fatalities involving a vehicle and an animal.   In the fall comes "the rut"—bucks chasing does, sometimes for miles—creates a surge in car collisions. In the summer, when fawns begin to follow their mothers, there will be another spike in accidents.
 Deer do not themselves contract Lyme disease, but they carry ticks that can spread the illness.
-==See Also==
+==See also==
 * [[Hunting]] with:
 ** [[Firearm]]s: [[Handgun]], [[Shotgun]] and [[Rifle]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:17, October 31, 2014
Line 37:		Line 37:

	Deer do not themselves contract Lyme disease, but they carry ticks that can spread the illness.		Deer do not themselves contract Lyme disease, but they carry ticks that can spread the illness.
		+
		+	== See also ==
		+
		+	*[[Keresh]]

	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

@@ Line 46: / Line 46: @@
 <references/>
-[[Category:Deer| ]]
+[[Category:Deer]]
-[[Category:Animals]]
+[[Category:Even-toed ungulates]]
 [[Category:Kosher Animals]]

@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 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.
 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]].
+[[Image:Muledeer.jpg|thumb|310px|male (left) and female (right) mule deer]]
 ==Breeding==