- There was an over population of deer and they were eating everything so one year they brought 15 to 20 of them to the Department of Natural Resources, it caused $100 a deer.
- A white-tailed deer is 38 to 40 inches high, 4 to 6 feet from nose to base, it's tail is 7 to 11 inches, and it weighs from 125 to 175 pounds, but bucks (males) weigh more than does (females).
- Bucks grow antlers during the summer, but when the breeding season is over the bucks shed their antlers.
- The white-tailed deer uses it's tail as an alert or an alarm, when it is fleeing from something it sticks its tail straight up as a warning to other deer.
- The most important sense to a deer is its sense of smell, it is because they can smell each other and their enemies.
4 questions
- Do all animals have a signal to show their group that there is trouble ahead and not to go any further?
- Do deer make noises or do they just use signals to warn each other?
- Why do bucks shed their antlers during the winter and grow them during the summer?
- Why don't does get antlers?
3 vocabulary
- piebald: having patches of black and white
- vireo: any of several small birds
- cementum: bone like tissue that forms outer layer of tooth
2 literary
- "Before humans flooded the continent" (pg. 150)
- "Deer are browsers" (pg. 155)
1 overview
- This chapter was about the white-tailed deer and what they eat, how they grow, how big they are, some attributes they have, and a warning signals.
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