WhiteTailed Deer

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White-Tailed Deer

• David, Nicaury, Kiandra and Monrina

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White -Tailed Deer

• One fascinating thing about white-tailed deer is
  that they are difficult to see in the wild. Deer
  are shy animals and their coats blend in with
  their habitat.

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Whitetails

• White-tailed deer are sometimes also called
  whitetails. Its tail grows up to one foot long!

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White-Tailed Deer

• There is so much more to learn about white-tailed
  deer.
• In our power point presentation, you will
  discover more about what white-tailed deer look
  like, their habitat, what white-tailed deer like
  to eat, how they care for their fawns, and also
  some interesting and amazing facts about
  white-tailed deer.

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What Whitetails Look Like

• Have you ever seen a beautiful white-tailed deer?
  Deer have large ears that they can move to pick
  up sounds from different directions. A deer sheds
  its coat twice a year.

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• Usually most deer have reddish brown hair with
  lighter bellies. This color blends well with
  their surroundings in the summer and makes deer
  very difficult to spot.

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In the winter, the whitetails hair turns
brownish gray. This helps a white-tailed deer
blend into its winter home.
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• Do you know how tall a whitetail grows? Whitetail
  bucks may stand up to more than 3 feet tall.
  Thats about as tall as a four-year-old child.
  It weighs between 220 and 330 pounds. Thats
  more than most grownups weigh!

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• Bucks grow antlers on their heads. A buck sheds
  its antlers every winter and in the spring new
  antlers grow.

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Where They Live

• Do you realize that there are forty-five kinds of
  deer? Deer live in many parts of the world. They
  are found in North and South America, Europe and
  Asia. But the whitetails are the most common deer
  in North America. White-tailed deer live in
  southern parts of Canada and throughout the
  United States except the far southwest. The
  woodlands of North America are home to the
  whitetail.

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What They Eat

• Have you ever wondered what white-tailed deer
  eat? Deer eat many different kinds of plants but
  they dont eat much grass. They love to eat twigs
  from bushes, leaves, flowers, fruit, acorns and
  mushrooms.

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Their Teeth

• Deer do not have top front teeth. Instead theres
  a hard gum-like pad. The toothless spaces allow
  the tongue to move the food around, mixing it up
  in the saliva. The saliva also contains juices
  that help to soften the plants.

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• The tough plants that deer eat wear down the
  deers teeth. So, deer keep on growing new teeth
  throughout their life.

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Fawns

• It is fascinating to learn about white-tailed
  deer fawns. Fawns are born in the spring. Female
  whitetails are called does. Does have one to
  three babies each year.

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Fawns

• Whitetail fawns are reddish brown with bright
  white spots. When a fawn lies down, their spots
  blend in with the little spots of sunlight in the
  grass. Their light brown fur blends in well with
  the leaves and twigs.

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• The mother leaves the fawn hidden in the grass
  while she goes to find food. A newborn fawn
  drinks its mothers milk and begins to eat plants.

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Whitetails in Danger

• Youll be shocked to learn that long ago,
  millions of whitetails lived in North America.
  But because people hunted them and cut down trees
  in the forests, by the year 1900, only 500,000
  were living in many of the places where they had
  lived.

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Saving the Whitetails

• To save the whitetails, the United States had to
  make new laws. People could only hunt deer at
  certain times of the year. Trees were planted to
  make new homes for the white-tailed deer.

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• The government has also made special parks to
  protect the deer. People are not allowed to hunt
  deer in these parks.

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Whitetails Came Back

• Now, because the deer had more fawns, and fewer
  deer were killed, the number of white-tails grew
  back. By the year 2000, about 15 to 20 million
  white-tailed deer lived in the United States!
  Today, they are the most common large wild
  animals in North America.

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We would like to thank our 5th grade mentorKyara