Odocoileus
Noun
Meaning
North American deer
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Its seedlings are not a preferred browse of black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) and elk (Cervus canadensis), but can be an important food source for these animals during the winter when other preferred forages are lacking.
For example, environmental degradation from white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) in the US alone has the potential to both change vegetative communities through over-browsing and cost forest restoration projects upwards of $750 million annually.
Similarly, both eagle species have been recorded, via video-monitoring, to feed on gut pills and carcasses of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in remote forest clearings in the eastern Appalachian Mountains without apparent conflict.
They grow from a permanent outgrowth of the frontal bone called the pedicle. and can be branched, as in the White-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ), or palmate, as in the Moose ( Alces alces ).