Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the family include white-tailed deer, mule deer such as black-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer, fallow deer, roe deer, pudú and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned animals such as antelope, which are in the same order as deer and may bear a superficial resemblance. The musk deer of Asia and water chevrotain of tropical
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Wisconsin. I was perched about twenty feet up one of the many deer stands located on our property in Waushara County. I had been sitting in the stand for about two hours now and hadn’t seen a deer, which was pretty normal. I sat there thinking to myself, “How come I am not seeing any deer? It’s a perfect morning and the best time to hunt. I have trail cam pictures of big bucks all year long. What is going on?” My problem was I didn’t know the deer movement like I should. In September of 2013, I set out
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The deer It was the first time I held a shotgun in my hand and my first time hunting with my dad, It was a cold September dawn we had been hunting since the night before, and we were getting tired so we had decided to go nap for a few hours then wake up again and keep hunting because we were decided to take something home that weekend. When we woke up we headed into the big piney woods that looked scary, we had been hunting for 4 hours and nothing seem to get in our paths so we gave up and were
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the deer more closely. We meet them at Lily near where Dundon. Then drove for a while but then Shane Elijah's dad got a few thorns in his face My dad had to get out of the side by side to help Elijah's dad get the thorns off of his face so he can see again.
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Annie Dillard’s essay “The Deer at Providencia,” expresses that whether you are animal or human, pain is unavoidable. She seems to believe that pain is a part of life that everyone has to go through and is something that one must accept. That is why when she noticed the deer’s neck “showed red striped and some bruises bleeding inside the muscles.” (Line 43) she had no reaction on her face. Dillard makes these points by reflecting on her trip to a village called Providencia with three North American
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touched and seen. The artwork “deer” was made in 2011 and it is a taxidermied deer with artificial crystal glass beads all over its body and head. It is 205cm in height and 150cm in width. Kohei Nawa is a Japanese artist that does all kinds of artwork such as beads, prism, liquid and many more. Nawa was born in Osaka, Japan in 1975 but now lives and works in Kyoto, where he is Associate Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. Kohei Nawa’s taxidermied deer is a connection to his cultural
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Deer hunting is one of the most popular hunting sports nation wide, and there are many ways to become a more successful hunter. It is important to know rules, the types of equipment to use, and strategies to become a better deer hunter. The first thing you need to know about killing a deer. To be able to kill a legal buck, it has to have at least, three antlers on one side only if your 16 and older; if you are 15 or younger then you have then that rule doesn't apply to you. In order to kill a doe
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A Perfect Day in the Deer Stand There are so many things to enjoy in the deer stand such as listening to all animal noises around you, watching the sun rise or set, or watching some of God’s beautiful creation. When I sit in the deer stand, I enjoy listening to the animals walking through the woods and making their distinct sounds. The sun rise and set are two of the most amazing things to watch while you are in the deer stand. When I’m in a deer stand hunting deer, I always enjoy looking at
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The Deer of Providencia is about deer being tied to a tree. 4 North Americans come and saw the deer, instead of helping, they were watching it suffer, the Native Americans move on and started to eat lunch, and watch the helpless deer struggle. This show they are very inconsiderate and thoughtless. It shows that animals just don’t get the same right as we humans do. “Life has no Justice,” “Trying to paw itself free of the top, it had scratched his neck with his hooves, and raw underside showed
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Keeping The Spike Deer Population From Spiking Regulated and controlled hunting has a very positive effect on our environment. Regulated and controlled hunting is very helpful to our environment by helping regulate the population, improve the environment and increase funding for maintenance of wildlife management. Regulated hunting causes the population to be maintained neutral and positive. In a persuasive essay done by a student, Kenny Randhawa, he states “Hunters kill animals that have large
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The Hunt for the Whitetail Deer It was December 11th, 2010, opening day for the second shotgun season in Iowa, and I was at home in my bed sleeping. Until my dad walked in at 5:00 a.m., tore my covers off and said, “Quinton, get up. It’s 5:00 a.m. Wanna be on the road in forty-five minutes.” I grunted and rolled out of bed. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes I walked to the bathroom across from my room. I stuck my head under the faucet and took a drink from the cold stream of water. Feeling refreshed
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For those who haven't been on many deer hunting trips, these tips and tricks will help you increase the probability that you'll see a deer on your trip. There's nothing worse than sitting for hours without sighting a deer, and it could be that you're making a fatal error. Scent Control Before a big hunt, make sure you're using scent control clothing. Deer can smell a human from further away than you'd think. Make sure you're showering with unscented soap and shampoo too. If you don't want to go
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In my community, there was a decreasing population of deer and elk. In addition, deer were often found wandering into our small towns eating the tops of flowers and getting into gardens, destroying months of hard laborious work. This, due to the deficit of edibles found where they would normally reside in higher altitudes. A piece of Utah's natural beauty was beginning to thin and the residents of our community were getting heated. Thankfully for us, we found a solution long before this became an
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Have you ever wondered why there are so many deer in your yard? Well it's not just a Carlisle thing. White Tailed Deer overpopulation is a real problem in many rural areas all over the North East. Overpopulation occurs when the factors that control the population of a species go away. Some reasons that the deer are overpopulating are that all their natural predators are going extinct. All the wolves, bears, coyotes, are dying off, leaving the deer perfectly safe. You would think human overpopulation
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Every year in November, I go deer hunting with my dad to feed my family. I head to my Grandma’s house, and there is a field back there that is planted, has a deer blind back there, and not much noise. That is my favorite spot to hunt, because lots of deer go there every year. My Dad loves to hunt, fish, has a girlfriend, does construction, and sometimes wears glasses. What I like to do is sing, hunt, fish, shoot guns, I am fourteen years old, smart, kind, wear glasses, and active. I go to my Dad’s
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White Tail Deer is one of the best known animals in Illinois. The White Tail Deer is recognized as the state animal of Illinois, possessing the ability to leap up to 8 feet (ca. 244 centimeters) in height or reach a length of 30 feet (ca. 9 meters. It is prohibited to provide food to wild deer in Illinois due to their need for sustenance in their natural habitat. All deer have heart shaped hooves or tracks, and when deer eat, they stand on their hind legs to reach vegetation (“White-tail Deer/Wildlife”)
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Mule Deer Range: Mule deer may spend 2–4 months out of every year migrating. Most of that time is spent in distinct “stopover” areas, where the deer follow the vegetation “green-up” and maximize nutritious vegetation. Migrating mule deer can move more than 150 miles, across different landscapes, and encounter many different obstacles and challenges along the way. An example of this would be the longest mule deer migration ever recorded, which was discovered in Wyoming, USA. Mule deer travel
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Whitetail deer have undergone an interesting history as they have evolved from their mule deer ancestors. They have undergone many changes to their physical appearance due to the fact their habitat has changed. The whitetails deer descended from their ancestor which was the mule deer which still lives today. Something big happened, this caused or basically forced the speciation of whitetail deer. In conclusion deer have undergone many adaptations and evolved in order to prosper in the world. White
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My Argumentative essay Do you like deer hunting? Deer hunting is a good way to spend time with family, hunting controls the population, and it helps you with the outdoors and knowledge of the outdoors. Hunting is a great pastime to have in your life it helps you with everything and it helps you respect the outdoors. When you are hunting it relieves your stress. Also hunting can be really,really peaceful when you set in a treestand or set in a ground blind. Hunting with family is amazing. It
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Wisconsin has thinned deer herds in much of the state, but in the north, where wolves prey on deer, the disease has not taken hold and the herds remain vigorous. Resulting in stronger, healthier deer. The above statement shows that an increase in the wolf population accounts for a stronger healthier deer population by eliminating the sick and unhealthy deer. The weaker deer are eliminated because they are easier preyed on than the stronger deer, naturally selecting the healthy deer to survive and prosper
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population of wolves now lives in Wisconsin, one of a dozen states in the country where wolves exist in the wild. The presence of wolves are causing issues to Wisconsin residents including, the killing of domestic animals and drastically depleting Whitetail Deer herds in some areas. Wolf numbers are now well over what the DNR once thought was a number of social acceptances. Yet, there are still many groups of people that believe the wolf should not be hunted or trapped, but allowed to naturally multiply. If
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On December 27th, 2011 I woke up to the sound of my dad getting ready to go deer hunting I was not supposed to go that saturday morning but that day changed my view on hunting all together It was cold that morning about nine-teen degrees I my dad said I wouldn’t last 5 mins out in that cold but I was determined to shoot my first deer after a few minutes of talking I finally convinced him to let me go. I got my gear ready slipped into my thermal clothes and my muddy boots we were on our way we pulled
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General Background Odocoileus virginianus, or better known by its common name, the white-tail deer. In terms of taxonomy, the white-tail deer is in the Animalia kingdom, the Cervidae Goldfuss family, Odocoileus Rafinesque genus, and the Odocoileus virginianus species (Catalogue of Life). The white-tail deer is an organism that is native to Maine. The geographical range of this deer is high, as the white-tail deer lives in most parts of southern Canada, and with the exception of just a couple states, inhabits
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novelist, who endured a very hard and depressing young life, uses his background as motivation for many of his novels and short stories. “Deer in the Works” one of many short stories by Kurt Vonnnegut, was published in 1950. Vonnegut after his service in World War II had a job at G.E or General Electric. This where people theorize where he got the inspiration for “Deer in the Works”. The setting in this book is the industrialized plant in Illium works, the second largest plant in America. G.E also a mega
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time going to youth hunt dad and I were deer hunting at my grandpas farm land in adams and it was about 5:00 P.M and my dad and I were up in the tree for about 2 hours now and a gigantic deer came walking up and I was not looking very good and started walk away. Then I heard the leaves and sticks cracking. And it walked right by me. And you have no idea how mad I was I was on fire and all of that just to see a deer walk by? I’m still mad and that same old deer walk by again and I did not waste anytime
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to that of a hunter's; the average that a hunter pays annually, out of pocket, is, most times, no more than what a new pair of nikes costs. Many would ask, “why is this important? What does it have to do with the price of wheat in China?” Simple; deer hunting is beneficial to the environment and society as long as those who choose to hunt take responsibility for their actions in the field; pick up the trash left behind, if any; run poachers of property(s), let property owner(s) know who is planning
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"Traveling Through the Dark “ a man is driving through the dark in his car and sees a dead deer on the road than realizes that the deer is pregnant also. So than he gets confused, and doesn’t know what to do, either keep driving on or call someone, or to push it off the road. So, than after viewing this dead deer he decide to push this stiffed up deer dead, off the road. As he goes up to push it, he could feel the baby deer inside of the dead mothers stomach, and so I guess that’s when he was shocked that
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The artwork of Frida Kahlo, The Wounded Deer, 1946, instantly caught my attention, it evoked some unsettling emotions within me, and hence why I chose to take a closer look at the art piece. Kahlo’s painting is a self- portrait which is synchronism of her Mexican and European heritage and how each aspect of her heritage is interwoven with their various belief systems. The medium, which is the physical means by which a picture is communicated, is oil paint on canvas. The period in which this piece
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My heart was beating out of my chest. Everything that my dad has told me about killing a deer, I was trying to remember. I had the crosshairs of my 284 rifle lined up on a doe. My palms were sweaty, I was breathing deep focusing on killing this deer that was 30 yards away. I took one deep breath and squeezed the trigger. It was the last day of rifle season, and I had been hunting all season long. My dad and I were out in the blind early that morning and hadn’t seen anything except a few
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thought that it would’ve been this bad. It was November 4th, the day before deer season opened up, my dad and I left early before school started to start our 2-hour drive to my cabin in McGregor about 20 min northeast of mille lacs. When we got there we had to start to unpack everything out of the truck, after that was all done I went to get our arctic cat four wheeler from the woods so we could run our chairs out to the deer stands. The air was warm, but the November breeze made you wear a sweatshirt
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