The crunch of something stepping on dry leaves catches your ear. The noise stops for a minute, then resumes. You turn your head as slowly as possible so as to be imperceptible in movement. It’s autumn ...

No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...

Big male mule deer buck with large velvet antlers reaching up to get a mouthful of scrub oak leaves in the early morning autumn light. He is now shedding his summer fur coat, Wet Mountains, Colorado© ...

White-tailed deer in North America are back to their precolonial population levels. John Woodhouse Audubon/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Given their abundance in American backyards, ...

Across North America, you really only run into three main kinds of wild deer, and once you know what... The post The 3 types of deer in North America — and the fast way to tell them apart appeared ...

An ongoing course project led by experts in the Texas A&M Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management will provide researchers with key data to assess populations, evaluate nutrition ...

Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a century ago. While they ...

The deer are a genetic variant of white-tailed deer. — -- Only a few glimpses of rare white deer had been possible in upstate New York, until now. A white deer and her fawn at Seneca Army Depot ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This near-disappearance of deer was much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White-tailed deer in North America are back to their precolonial population levels. John Woodhouse Audubon/Heritage Images/Hulton ...