The Ultimate Deer Quiz

There are about 100 kinds of deer.

The moose is the largest.

The moose is six feet (1.8 m) tall at the shoulders.

The smallest deer is the pudu from Chile. It is about the size of a large rabbit.

Except for the Père David's deer, all the others grow antlers in spring and shed them in the winter.

Female reindeer and caribou grow horns.

It is usually white.

Deer eat greenery, plants, leaves and twigs.

Fawns are young deer.

They breed every year in late September.

winter

They usually live for 15 to 20 years.

Venison is deer meat and is considered a choice meat.

They sun-dried or smoked the meat in a process known as jerking. The dehydrated meat kept well without refrigeration and was light in weight.

They were made into harpoons and picks.

Roe deer antlers are used for umbrella handles.

It comes from the abdominal gland of the musk deer.

Apart from the difference in size, antlers are temporary; they grow back after being shed. Horns are permanent.

The white-tailed or Virginia deer is the most common species.

She stomps her hoof hard on the ground to signal the rest of the herd to flee.