Choosing a mammal to represent a state can be difficult. Strong reasons for selection may relate to the animal’s majesty, the ...

Selected as the state animal in 1980 by school children, the white-tailed deer is an amazing conservation comeback story in ...

Quick Take In 2015, the white-tailed deer was designated the official state mammal of Georgia. Deer hunting generates ...

This fall, the biggest danger on the road is white-tailed deer – as in deer, plural. An annual event, white-tailed deer mating season – otherwise known as the rut – it’s the time of year when male ...

During the breeding season, white-tailed deer might use their eyes and noses to navigate signs—forehead secretions on trees ...

Researchers have known for some time that deer leave marks on trees by rubbing their foreheads and antlers. They do this to ...

The regular 2025-2026 deer season will end on January 19, with the closing of the flintlock season. Those hunters that have been unsuccessful will no doubt be thinking about the big buck that got away ...

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 ...

Dublin has been considering what to do about the city's deer population for several years. The city's survey comes amid deer ...

MARYLAND - The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is advising hunters of an outbreak in Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in white-tailed deer. Maryland DNR advises hunters that EHD is the likely ...

LEWISTON, Idaho – The first confirmed case of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) in the Clearwater region has been reported by Idaho Fish and Game. The illness was found in a white-tailed deer in ...