Hybrid deer in Washington State?
This video was posted on an outdoor channel in Eastern Washington: This guy is a good naturalist, and he has excellent trail camera placement. But what he’s actually seeing are not hybrids. What he is...
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Mule deer dreams
One of my dreams is hunt mule deer in the West. I don’t care where in the West. I just want to go out on into that big country, wander around the rocks and cliffs and sage brush, climb out onto a high...
View ArticleCoyotes hunting in a pack
This video shows coyotes hunting very much like larger wolves, but it also shows you an odd thing about mule deer. Mule deer stick together. Mule deer that are not related to a fawn will come in to...
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Some thoughts on deer and evolution
White-tailed deer are ubiquitous in the Eastern and Midwestern states. They are like pigeons or raccoons or brown rats, suddenly making appearances in the most human-dominated environments, and if...
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Mule deer buck killed in Wisconsin
One of the more interesting stories of the past week comes out of Polk County, Wisconsin. A bow-hunter killed a mule deer. That may not sound so weird, but the thing is mule deer are a Western...
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A species younger than the domestic dog
Depending upon how one classifies the black-tailed deer, the mule deer may be the youngest species of deer. Valerius Geist posits that the mule deer derived from hybridization between black-tails and...
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Bobcat kills mule deer
I’m not sure in which state these photos were taken, but it’s obviously a large bobcat killing a mule deer fawn. Canada lynx don’t have obvious leopard-type spots. Bobcats do kill deer. In my home...
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