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MULE DEER FACTS
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Description
The Mule Deer color ranges from dark brownish gray to pale gray to brown. It has a pale rump patch of white or yellow, and a white throat patch. The tail is white and usually has tuft of black on the end.
Size
Length: males 1.3-1.7 m; females 1.3-1.6 m
Environment
Found in wide range of habitats including desert, savanna, grassland, forest and mountains.
Food
leaves and twigs of trees and shrubs. also eats acorns, legume seeds, and fleshy fruits, including berries
Breeding
One or two calves are born after gestation of 200 days. The young weight 2 to 5 kg at birth. Young are fully weaned at about 16 weeks.
Range
Most of western parts of North America. The eastern edge of the usual range extends from southwestern Saskatchewan through central North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and western Texas.
Classification
| Class: | Mammalia | | Order: | Artiodactyla | | Family: | Cervidae | | Genus: | Odocoileus | | Species: | hemionus | | Common Name: | Mule Deer |
Relatives in same Genus
White-tailed Deer (O. virginianus)
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