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WorksheetsWhitetail Deer
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 28mins
What sex is a buck
Fawn
Female
Male
Doe
Doe are what sex?
Male
Buck
Female
Fawn
Fawns are what type of deer?
Adult
Baby
Teenage
Dead/Harvested
There are over how many deer in NJ?
200,000
400,000
250,000
290,000
When a deer is hit by a car or shot buy a hunter and never recovered this is considered a(n)...
Harvested Deer
Unharvested Deer
The purpose of hunting whitetail deer is...
To reduce the population
Maintain the health of the herd
Provide outdoor recreation
All the Above
80,000 deer are killed annually in NJ how many are by hunters? Cars?
80,000 and 50,000
50,000 and 30,000
30,000, and 10,000
80,000 and 10,000
What is mast?
Winter food for deer
Summer food for deer
Corn
A group of deer
In winter, what do deer eat?
Buds
Dry Grass
Twigs and Bark
All the options
In summer deer eat a lot of different things, what are some of those things?
Corn
Acorns
Legumes
Roughage
What is Taxonomy?
The means of naming things in a logical order
The stuffing and preservation of dead animals
Trees that deer eat
Refers to a deer's lifespan
The body temperature of the whitetail deer is what?
101
98.7
104
200
To be a mammal it means that you have what features?
Warm blooded, 4 chambered heart
Give birth to living offspring
Have hair
Mothers produce milk
Which of the following is the species of deer in NJ
Odocoileus, virginanus, borealis
O.v. Key
Odocoileus, virginanus, key
Odocoileus, virginanus, coues
Antlers are made up of what substances, for this reason they are considered made up of bone
Keratin
Calcium and Phosphorus
Calcium and Magnesium
Calcium and Vitamin D
The size of a deer's antlers are entirely dependent on what two factors?
Diet
Genetics
The weather
Where he lives
Antlers are only found on male deer, what happens to them annually
They Shed
They re-velvet
They get bigger
There growth becomes slower
What is the purpose of the velvet on a deer's antlers while they are growing?
Supply blood flow to the growing tissues as well as cool them down
Protect them from the elements
To keep them warm
To aid in the growth by creating a warming factor
Antlers are attached to what on the deer's skull?
Pedicels
Knobs
Testes
Horns
Horns do not what?
Shed annually
Continually grow
Horns are made up of what material?
Keratin
Calcium and Phosphorous
Vitamin A
Blood
True or False; Horns have an internal blood supply in their porous interiors.
True
False
Testes are responsible for what duties in the whitetail deer?
The production of the hormone testosterone
The production of estrogen
"Maleness"
Antler growth
What does it mean to have pendulated testicles?
Means the testes can regulate their temperature with an up and down movement
Means the testes can't regulate their temperature
Means that testosterone is the only thing the testicles are responsible for
It means they are taxonomically in the same genus as humans
What is the pituitary gland?
Causes the release of certain hormones by specific organs
Is what releases the scents for does to smell
Helps does locate a buck
Avocados from Mexico
Deer are polygamous which means that....
They have many sexual partners
They only have one mate and help raise the young as a team
Means Bucks are good with shapes
Means that they only have one partner
In Sussex County it isn't unusual for dominant buck to mate with how many does?
40
200
1
89
When is the "rut"?
Mid October to Mid December
End of August until the new year.
Nov 15th and only Nov 15th
In Feb, right around Valentine's Day
When is the peak of the "rut"?
Nov 15th
Dec 25th
Feb 14th
March 17th
After mating season what do deer do?
"Yard Up"
Start mating
Grow new antlers
Hibernate
Between January and March what happens to Bucks?
Their antlers begin to grow
The establish a homerange
Their antlers drop
The hibernate
In the summer the buck does what?
Hangs out with other bucks and eats
Hangs out only with does
Helps raise the fawns
Travels 50 miles to establish a home range
Antlers begin to grow when?
Mid April
October
August
February
When do Antlers stop growing?
Late August
January
March
June
Good mating areas have what?
Good cover/areas that are protected
Openness so the deer can see for a long distance
Abundant food sources
Lots of water
What is a doe's sex hormone?
Estrogen
Testosterone
Avocados from Mexico
Saratonin
A doe's job in nature is to do what?
To get pregnant and care for young
Get the fawns ready for school
To hang with the girls in an open field
To eat everything in sight
What is Gestation?
The length of a pregnancy
The shedding of the uterus to prepare for a baby
The length of time it take to eat
A game similar to charades
A deer's gestation is how long?
208 days/7 months
9 months/270 days
1 year/365 days
180 days/6 months
Another word for estrus is what?
Heat
Cold
Sweats
Chills
What is estrus?
The time when a doe can conceive a baby
The time a doe can eat in order to "flush" her system
The time it takes to find a find a buck
How long is the time frame of estrus? (The time window of when conception of a fawn is possible)
24-48 hrs
5 days
less than 12 hours
A week
Does come into estrus how often?
Every 28 days but only during mating season
Every 28 days year round
What does flushing mean as it relates to does?
If you increase the nutritional intake of a doe, the number of fertile eggs released will increase.
When you flush a toilet it releases food for deer
True or False: Does that are older than 3 years old tend to come into heat 3 times while younger does only come into heat twice.
True
False
True or False: Mammary Glands are what produce milk.
True
False
True or False: Does need more roughage rather than mast in order to properly lactate.
True
False
True or False: Weaning is the time where fawns are old enough to eat on their own and the mom stops giving them cuds and forces them to drink milk?
True
False
What is Colostrum?
Early specially charged milk that gives fawns a resistance to disease and strength after birth.
Early specially charged saliva that cleans a fawn and makes them scentless.
The milk that is produced during weaning
A special kind of cud that mothers feed to their young
True or False: Fawns can stand and walk just a few minutes after birth.
True
False
True or False: Spots on fawns aid in helping fawns stand out to predators.
True
False
Fawns instinctively do what when they sense a predator?
Lay still and hope that mom will lure them away
Run for the hills with their tails up
Fake a seizure so the predator will think they are sick and leave them alone
Have a heart attack so they don't suffer the pain of being eaten while alive.
How do we age deer?
Their teeth
There skull structure
Their size
Their antlers
Why might we want to age a whitetail deer?
To use as a wildlife management tool
Age span of deer population
To help indicate the number of fawns in a year
All the above
Why use teeth to age deer?
It has been used for 1000's of years to age animals because of observable wear
Presents of baby teeth can help tell you just how young they are before wear is too much
The secession of teeth, baby to adult, can help age younger dear
All the above
True or False: The older a deer the sharper their teeth will be.
True
False
