My Baby
by Deena Stoddard
Title
My Baby
Artist
Deena Stoddard
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
White-tailed deer, the smallest members of the North American deer family, are found from southern Canada to South America. In the heat of summer they typically inhabit fields and meadows using clumps of broad-leaved and coniferous forests for shade. During the winter they generally keep to forests, preferring coniferous stands that provide shelter from the harsh elements.
Does give birth to one to three young at a time, usually in May or June and after a gestation period of seven months. Fawns wear a reddish-brown coat with white spots that helps them blend in with the forest.
White-tailed deer are herbivores, leisurely grazing on most available plant foods. Their stomachs allow them to digest a varied diet, including leaves, twigs, fruits and nuts, grass, corn, alfalfa, and even lichens and other fungi. Occasionally venturing out in the daylight hours, white-tailed deer are primarily nocturnal or crepuscular, browsing mainly at dawn and dusk.
This mother and her baby were captured on a lovely afternoon in rural southwest Missouri.
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January 30th, 2013
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