Tuesday, February 10, 2009

5,4,3,2,1 White-Tailed Deer

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  • 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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