William Shatner is recounting the time he spoke with a 'diplomatic pooper' penguin while on an expedition in Antarctica with ...

A Rock County deer farm has been placed under quarantine following the recent finding of chronic wasting disease in a doe on ...

A six-year study of more than 600 deer in Wisconsin may have found ways to improve management of fatal chronic wasting ...

James Bigley examines how whitetail deer behave on private property and what it means for landowners.

The whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is located on both American continents from Southern Canada down to Peru and Bolivia in the South America, where they inhabit hardwoods, croplands, ...

Easily recognizable by the whitetails for which they earned their name, whitetail deer are one of the most common species of ...

Human use of fire could partly explain why white-tailed deer may have been resilient to hunting. Indigenous peoples across North America have long used controlled burning to promo ...

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In Illinois, deer rut refers to the rut season for the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the only native species of deer in the state. In addition to an increase in testosterone, males ...

The agency is focusing on lowering the whitetail population in 19 units while keeping it stable in three. “Over the past five years, more WMUs have moved from an objective to stabilize deer ...

The agency is focusing on lowering the whitetail population in 19 units while keeping it stable in three. “Over the past five years, more WMUs have moved from an objective to stabilize deer ...

This development comes with the reassurance, however, that federally protected Columbian white-tailed deer remain off-limits to salvage efforts. According to the WDFW, this decision was made after ...