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The Virginia Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is the most popular game animal in the commonwealth, and yet, the deer population is greater today than in colonial times. This increase is due to several factors that form a habitat that is favored by the deer.
Cutover woods, grown up fields and the decline in natural predators like mountain lions and wolves are certainly factors. Those factors combined with the polygamous habits of the male deer and the natural productiveness of the female has caused the increase.
The female deer, called a doe, gives birth to young, called fawns, in May or June. A doe may give birth to one, two, or three fawns at a time. After the fawn is first born it has no scent so predators cannot smell it. A fawn’s coat is reddishbrown with small white spots. This coloring helps the young fawn blend in with the forest.
Blending in with the habitat is called camouflage, and it is one way an animal adapts to its environment. The spots on a fawn disappear when the fawn completes its first molt and gets a winter coat, at about five months old.
Adult deer range in color from tawny to gray on their backs and flanks and are white below. A male deer or buck in our area can weigh nearly 200 pounds and that would
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