Whitetail Deer

Whitetail Deer

Texas whitetails tends stand about 3 feet at the shoulder and weigh up to 250
pounds, though most are smaller. The adult white-tailed deer has a bright reddish brown summer coat and a duller grayish brown winter coat; the underparts are white.

Bucks have forwardly curved antlers that bear a number of unbranched tines. They thrive in open woodland cutover forests, and woodlots on the fringes of urban areas and in farming country, often turning to orchards and other cultivated vegetation for food. Its diet includes leaves, twigs, and fruits or nuts of most vegetation, as well as lichens and other fungi.