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sodapop--stims · 17 hours

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Little Fawns 🌲🦌🍂

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meeks-just-wants-to-scroll · 3 days

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High and low honor arthur animals

#meek’s art #high honor arthur morgan #low honor arthur morgan #Arthur Morgan #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 fanart #red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption two #coyote #buck #deer #white tailed deer #melanistic #furries #furry #furry art #I like deer Arthur more than coyote Arthur

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plushieanimals · 3 months

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piutré white-tailed deer fawn 4832

#deer #piutre #piutré #white tailed deer #fawn #plush #plushies #plushie #plushcore #plushblr

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geopsych · 7 months

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Deer pictures from early September. I'm looking through pictures downloaded from the camera.

#pennsylvania #landscape #deer #white tailed deer #september

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lionfloss · 1 year

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white-tailed fawn

#i legit said 'oh my motherfucking god' out loud when i saw this #look at the baby!!!!!#LOOK AT HIM #white tailed deer #fawn #deer #animals #baby animals #grass #cute #cottagecore #aesthetic

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pimsri · 2 months

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Till Death Do Us Part ❤️

#animal death #dead animal #animal #animal art #deer #buck #white tailed deer #actually I saw charmuro pic earlier which inspired me to draw this #yeah so #till death do us part #pimsriart #pimsriart2024 #blood

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g63heavenonearth · 2 months

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Allegheny Cemetery 3-17-14-19

#cemetery #graveyard #deer #animals #allegheny cemetery #white tailed deer #pond #heavenonearth #pittsburgh

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fyanimaldiversity · 6 months

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Melanistic white tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

@ davidfranklin1

#color mutation #melanistic #melanism #white tailed deer #Odocoileus virginianus #deer #ungulate #her face :P

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rebeccathenaturalist · 7 months

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Unsurprisingly, a lot of the commentary I'm seeing about this has been of the "But--but--I would do the same thing because I don't want anything bad to happen to the deer!"

Look. I love wildlife, and I love getting to see deer, coyotes, and even the occasional black bear in my neighborhood. But they are here because there is good habitat nearby with lots of natural food sources, not because I deliberately put out food for them to eat. I respect them as wild animals with whom my relationship is very different compared to the domesticated animals I take care of every day. A deer is not a sheep or a horse; a coyote is not a dog.

People who do things like try to tame deer or, worse yet, try to raise a fawn or other young wildlife like pets are robbing those wild animals of their natural existences. We've already wrought our own preferences on the landscape to a severe degree, tearing the wildness out of it to create lawns and farms and subdivisions and strip malls. When we then dismiss the wildness of these animals and impress our own desire for connection on our terms on them, we are harming them.

I've already written elsewhere about the difference between "tame" and "domesticated". No matter how docile that deer seems, it is never going to be as (relatively) safe and tractable as a domesticated sheep or goat. It will always be more unpredictable, and more likely to lash out suddenly at a person due to fear, or hormones, or protection of young.

These animals need their wild instincts to be intact if they are going to survive without being dependent on us. They need those instincts in order to find mates and keep the gene pool stirred up. Their instincts keep them safe from danger, including humans. And their instincts never totally go away, no matter how much we may try to tame them otherwise.

This is why a good wildlife rehab is going to minimize handling of the wild animals they care for, especially those that are going to be able to be released back into the wild. The less comfortable these animals are with humans, the better their chances of surviving in the wild and having fulfilling, natural lives. Wildlife that retain their wariness of humans are less likely to end up falling prey to hunting, or being killed as nuisance animals when they get too aggressive in seeking food or otherwise coming into conflict with people.

The person who painted "pet" on a fully grown white-tailed buck and put a collar around his neck may have felt like they were doing that deer a kindness, but they have likely robbed him of the chance to just live a natural life as his own, independent being out in the woods and fields. He might be out there, sure, but perhaps he won't mate because he imprinted on humans. Or maybe he will end up shot by a hunter in spite of the precautions because he's just too friendly and those antlers are worth taking the shot.

There will always be something missing from this deer's life because of the arrogance of someone who thought they could own and keep and control a wild-born animal for their own enjoyment, instead of allowing him to come and go as he pleased. Honestly, it reminds me of King Haggard from Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, whose response to seeing something beautiful was to capture it and keep it rather than simply enjoying and remembering that magical moment:

"I like to watch them. They fill me with joy. The first I felt it I thought I was going to die. I said to the Red Bull I must have them, all of them, all there are. For nothing makes me happy but their shining and their grace. So the Red Bull caught them. Each time I see the unicorns, my unicorns, it is like that morning in the woods and I am truly young, in spite of myself."

That's how I feel about people who are willing to drastically alter a wild animal's behavior for their own selfish benefit, even if they think they're being kind. I know I'm fighting a bit of an uphill battle in this, but I'm rather stubborn that way.

#deer #wildlife #wild animals #nature #animal welfare #animal cruelty #hunting #white tailed deer #zoology #animal behavior #ecology #environment #conservation #wildlife conservation #feeding wildlife #pets #animals #The Last Unicorn

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heartwarminganimals · 9 months

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#video #deer #white tailed deer #fawn #cute animals #wild animals #playtime #kiddie pool

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critter-catcher · 10 months

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For today's pride month post, let's talk about white tailed deer!

Now these guys actually surprised me, did you know up to 15% of white tailed deer are intersex? There are deer that are born with both sex organs, females that grow antlers, and even what's known as Velvethorns.

A normal buck will shed it's velvet from late August to early September, but velvet horns never she'd their velvet. As a buck's testosterone level rises as they get ready for mating season their antler's harden and their velvet is shed.

So why doesn't this happen to velvet horns?

Depending on the reason, be it birth defect, or some sort of truama to the testicles, these guys just never get that testosterone boost. It also leads to them having an appearance more similar to a doe than a buck.

They tend to shy away from male or female groups, instead forming herds with other velvet horns, they've even been known to adopt orphaned fawns!

Even the hunting community knows about these deer, some states actually having them tag the deer as "antlered" or "antlerless" to avoid any confusion!

#i was using this as an excuse to post more of my own cam footage😅#animals #trail cam #mammals #nature #critters #wild life #wildlife #animal facts #facts #pride #deer #white tailed deer #lgbtq #lgbt #intersex #pride month

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losttimpactt · 9 months

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A new viewpoint on antlers reveals the evolutionary history of deer (Cervidae, Mammalia)

fullview recommended!

something i've wanted to do for a while now. i've scoured the internet for something like this and can't find anything that compares all the different types of antlers together. except one recent study on their evolution, which is also very interesting on its own! i simplified it to provide a visual reference, while still trying to be scientifically accurate. some things differ between this and trophy scoring terminology like where the beam is and whatnot, so if something looks weird that's why.

small additional note, this study and others provide a lot of evidence that eld's deer should be in their own genus as it doesn't appear similar enough to barasingha and schomburgk's deer. however this doesn't seem to be adapted anywhere yet, so they're still in Rucervus for this guide.

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