#odocoileus virginianus

[fyanimaldiversity]

Melanistic white tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

@ davidfranklin1

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

[snototter]

A white-tailed deer buck (Odocoileus virginianus) in Lake Meyer Park, Iowa, USA

by Larry Reis

#white tailed deer #deer #odocoileus virginianus #odocoileus #cervidae #artiodactyla #mammalia #chordata #wildlife: iowa #wildlife: usa #wildlife: north america

[oh-dear-so-queer]

An extraordinary form of transgendered deer occurs in some populations of White-tails. These animals, which are genetically male but actually combine characteristics of both males and females, are sometimes called VELVET-HORNS because their antlers are permanently covered with the special "velvet" skin that in most males is shed after the antlers have grown.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

#book quote #biological exuberance #bruce bagemihl #nonfiction #transgender #intersex #white tailed deer #odocoileus virginianus #velvet horns #antlers

[geckoodles]

White-Tailed Deer, Highlands Hammock State Park, FL.

#;alezart #nature photography #white tailed deer #Odocoileus virginianus #animal photography #photographers of tumblr

[andean-deer]

White-tailed Deer by Luis G. Restrepo

#yuraqchupa lluychu #white tailed deer #odocoileus virginianus

[podartists]

The White-Tailed Deer (Cervus leucurus) | Joseph Wolf | Zoological sketches v.1 (1861) | Biodiversity Heritage Library | Flickr | Public domain

#deers #white tailed deer #odocoileus virginianus #columbian white tailed deer #odocoileus virginianus leucurus #cervidae #joseph wolf

[thatnostalgiccarp]

Critter fact #117:

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are the only deer species in Virginia

#critter facts #Mammals #Deer #white tailed deer #Odocoileus virginianus

[bow-echo]

A deer jumped over my car!!

I was heading for a gas station to get myself a pop and a scone. I saw a deer cross the road ahead of me so I slowed down. When there's one deer, there's often more so I'm keeping an eye out-- then I look in the rear view mirror and this giant brown shadow just flew over the rear end of the car!!! If I'd been going any slower I'd have a deer riding shotgun with me. I've never hit a deer before and just missed by a hair

#Odocoileus virginianus #white-tailed deer #deer vs car #hicks in the sticks #that was close #no cwd detected

[nerosbeastiary]

Male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), September 2022

Southwestern PA

Not the best picture, but I was staying back as not to disturb him.

#2022 #september #chordate #mammalian #artiodactyla #cervidae #odocoileus virginianus #white tailed deer

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Physically, velvet-horns often have body proportions and facial features more typical of does, while their testes are smaller and undeveloped (and in fact the animals are infertile).

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

#book quotes #biological exuberance #bruce bagemihl #nonfiction #white tailed deer #odocoileus virginianus #velvet horn #intersex #body proportions #facial features #undeveloped #infertile

[fyanimaldiversity]

An odd silver furred, pink skinned, one eyed female white tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) [x]

#leucustic #leucism #that’s just a guess tho #white tailed deer #deer #Odocoileus virginianus #ungulate #mammal #oddball #<—-something I’ll use for ones where I have no idea what is going on #color mutation #physical differences

[snototter]

A White-Tailed deer buck (Odocoileus virginianus)  in Algonkian Regional Park, Virginia, USA

by Tom Black

#white-tailed deer #whitetail #Odocoileus virginianus #odocoileus #capreolinae #cervidae #artiodactyla #mammalia #chordata #wildlife: virginia #wildlife: usa #deer

[oh-dear-so-queer]

Gender-mixing Deer that are fertile (almost always genetically female) are usually heterosexual (i.e., they mate with genetic males), while nonfertile transgendered Deer (e.g., velvet-horns) are probably asexual or associate only with other transgendered deer.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

#book quote #biological exuberance #bruce bagemihl #nonfiction #white tailed deer #odocoileus virginianus #mule deer #black tailed deer #odocoileus hemionus #intersex #fertility #heterosexual #transgender #velvet horn #asexual

[withywindle-valley]

Velvet-horns usually form their own social groups of three to seven animals and live separately from both does and nontransgendered males. In fact, they are often harassed and attacked by other deer. Nontransgendered White-tails (both does and bucks of all ages, even fawns) threaten velvet-horns who try to approach them – forcing them to remain no less than ten feet away – while bucks may actively charge velvet-horns to drive them away. When threatened, velvet-horns flee without giving the standard alarm signals of other deer (stamping their feet, snorting or whistling, and raising their tails). Sometimes, groups of up to six bucks "gang up" on a velvet-horn, chasing and even violently attacking it by gashing its rump with their antlers. As a result, velvet-horns are extremely wary around other deer, venturing near feeding areas cautiously and always remaining in groups on the periphery, or else refusing to approach it at all when other deer are present.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

#book quote #biological exuberance #bruce bagemihl #i have so many feelings about this #life imitates art #life imitates nature #yeah me too bud i also feel like i need to stay on the periphery for my safety and wellbeing #white tailed deer #odocoileus virginianus

[rjalker]

Deer I saw on October 20th! Only one unaccounted for, there's usually seven.

It looks like the bigger on in the first picture has its tongue hanging out, so it might have a fever...

[ID: Two photographs of white-tailed deer. standing on a paved path between a concrete hill and a forest. The first photo shows two deer, with the hill on the left, and the second shows four, with the hill on the right.

The first shows a larger deer turned sideways to the camer and looking towards it, with its tongue appearing to hang out of its mouth to the side. A smaller deer has its back to the camera, but is turning to look over its shoulder.

The second has all of the deer with their backs or sides to the camera, with one grazing, the other two looking at the forest they are walking towards, and one with its head turned to the side.

End ID.]

#Rjalker takes pictures #white-tailed deer #deer #Odocoileus virginianus #odocoileus #white-tailed and mule deer #deer photos #animal photos

[andean-deer]

Cayambe-Coca NP by Peter Edmonds

#new avatar #andes #yuraqchupa lluychu #white-tailed deer #odocoileus virginianus