World Species : Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer)

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Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer)

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Synonyms: Cervus virginianus; Dama virginiana; Dama virginianus (homotypic); Odocoileus cooki; Odocoileus sheridanus

Language: French; Spanish

Infraspecies

Invasive Species

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 4.99

EDGE Score: 1.79

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	191.803 lbs (87.00 kg)
Birth Weight ^[1]	6.614 lbs (3.00 kg)
Male Weight ^[3]	98.768 lbs (44.80 kg)

Diet ^[2]	Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants ^[2]	90 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	10 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	100 %

Female Maturity ^[1]	10 months 9 days
Male Maturity ^[1]	1 year 1 month

Gestation ^[1]	6 months 18 days
Litter Size ^[1]	2
Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Maximum Longevity ^[1]	22 years
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	5.937 feet (181 cm)
Speed ^[4]	29.997 MPH (13.41 m/s)
Weaning ^[1]	4 months 9 days

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
California Floristic Province	Mexico, United States	No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands	Mexico, United States	No
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru	No

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Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

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Providers

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Consumers

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Range Map

External References

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Citations

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♦ ⁸Food niche of Puma concolor in central Mexico, Octavio Monroy-Vilchis, Yuriana Gómez, Mariusz Janczur & Vicente Urios, Wildlife Biology 15: 97-105 (2009)
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0