Mule Deer
Mule Deer
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Mule Deer
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Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
Species Code: ODHE
Description: The Mule Deer is a large mammal. The pelage of mule deer ranges from dark brown gray, dark and light ash-gray to brown and even reddish.
Mule Deer
Odocoileus hemionus
The Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a common and widespread deer of the western United States and Canada. It may be found in a wide variety of habitats from rugged mountain terrain to costal forests to deserts.
Mule deer are found in almost every habitat west of the Missouri River. Look for them early in the morning or at dusk. If you get a chance, try to spot a mule deer running.
Mule Deer are one of two deer species that occur in the Calgary area, usually in moderately high numbers.
Mule deer of both sexes normally do most of their feeding in early morning before sunrise or in late afternoon and evening after sundown. They spend the middle of the day bedded down in cool, secluded places.
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Mule deer frequently browse leaves and twigs of trees and shrubs. Green leaves are very succulent and consist largely of easily digestible cell contents. Dead and weathered leaves have little protein and high cell-wall values.
Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque)
Description: Mule deer can be distinguished from other Kansas members of the family Cervidae by: 1) reddish-brown back and sides in summer that become grayish-brown in winter, 2) darker mid-dorsal ...
Mule Deer
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Odocoileus hemionus - coastal summer variation, left (male); inland winter variation, male (center) and female (right)
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The Mule Deer
This stocky deer with sturdy legs has large ears that move constantly and independently, hence their name, "Mule" or "Burro Deer." They can reach speeds up to 45 mile per hour, helpful when pursued by coyotes or mountain lions.
White-tailed deer/ Mule deer: According to a review by Kramp and others [60], low-severity fire that creates small forest openings up to 1.2 acre (0.50 ha) is preferred by white-tailed and mule deer.
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The key difference in distinguishing the gallop of the white-tailed and mule deer is while the mule tends to bound as if on springs, the white-tailed deer "rocks" by swinging its hind feet ahead of the front ones.
The mule deer has scent glands on its hind legs right above its hooves. Young deer will often identify their mothers by sniffing at the glands. When mule deer are in groups, they often sniff each others hind legs.
Elk are more than twice as heavy as mule deer and have a more reddish hue to their hair coloring, as well as large, buff colored rump patches and smaller tails.
White-tailed deer are Indiana's sole representative of the family Cervidae, which includes mule deer, elk and moose. The best known characteristics of this family is that males bear antlers. Antlers, unlike horns, are not permanent structures.
The chief item of diet is deer Analyses of stomachs revealed that in the Southwest the mule deer accounted for 54 percent of the total food (by frequency of occurrence); white-tailed deer, 28 percent; porcupines, 5.8 percent; cottontails, 3.
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Domesticated animals (cattle, sheep etc.) make up a large part of the condor's diet, though mule deer and feral pigs killed by hunters are also food sources. In the past, condors were noted feeding upon marine mammal carcasses (whales, sea lions etc.
Habitat Helper: Even grazing species, such as Bison, Pronghorn and Mule Deer have shown a proclivity for grazing on the same land used by prairie dogs.
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Mexican wolves prey on white-tailed deer, mule deer and elk but are also known to eat smaller mammals such as rabbits, ground squirrels and mice.
Staples Ungulates (large hoofed mammals) like white-tailed deer, mule deer and elk
Also known to eat smaller mammals like rabbits, ground squirrels and mice.
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White-tailed deer (O. virginianus) Â- Mule deer (O. hemionus)
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They also help strenghten the prey populations by feeding primarily on the sick and weak. Studies of prey taken by the central Idaho population of cougars showed that over half of the mule deer and elk taken were in poor condition.
Ruminantia (ruminants), Family Cervidae (deer, elk, moose, etc.), Subfamilies: Cervinae (elk, fallow deer, etc.), Hydropotinae (Chinese Water Deer), Muntiacinae (Barking Deer, Muntjac), Odocoileinae (moose, caribou, roe deer, Andean deer, mule deer, ...
In summer its upper parts are reddish brown, in winter grayish. The mule deer exists in reduced numbers from the Plains region westward, and the closely related black-tailed deer is a Pacific coast form.
slender legs, large ears, and a tail that, when the deer is alarmed, flares erect to reveal the fluffy white underside for which the animal is named. White-tails belong to the Cervidae (deer) family, which includes elk, moose, caribou and mule deer.
 See also: Deer, White-tailed Deer, Elk, Sheep, Red Deer
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