Desert Mule Deer Use of Grazed and Ungrazed Habitats

Bed-site Selection by Desert Mule Deer in Southern Arizona

We compared bed sites selected by desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus eremicus) to nearby random sites to assess bed site features. Thermal cover of bed sites (i.e., vegetation -75 cm high that provided shade for a deer) was highest in summer (X = 43.7% + 4.1 SE) compared to spring (29.7% + 4.4), winter (33.5% ? 3.1), and autumn (39.8% + 4.0); however, selection for bed sites with thermal cov...

Mule Deer

Mule Deer

Phylogeographic Inference of Insular Mule Deer (<i>Odocoileus Hemionus</i>) Divergence in North America's Desert Southwest

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Testicular atrophy in a mule deer population.

Monitoring mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) on a former plutonium production site along the Columbia River at the Hanford Site, Washington (USA) revealed 27 (23%) of 116 adult males had unusually shaped, velvet-covered antlers and abnormally developed testicles. We captured 32 males to examine age-class differences and the ratio of affected to unaffected deer and determine whether affected testi...