White Tail Deer Research Paper

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Nolan Perrien Mr Jeffries Composition 25 March 2024.

In this essay I'm going to be talking about white tail deer and how they thrive in nature throughout the Midwest and spread across America. I decided to choose this topic because my favorite hobby is deer hunting. Outside of school, I spend about fifty percent of my time working on things to make my deer habitat stronger and to make the deer’s lives easier. After all of the preparation I get into my tree stand that sits over top of the animals habitat to hunt a trophy buck. Choosing this topic really interested me because I feel this assignment will help me research deer more and get a better understanding of how they think and react to things in the wild. Things I already know about this topic are when hunting seasons are for white tailed deer
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Some things I hope to uncover in this research essay is how deer use their senses to smell people that are almost 200 yards away. I would also like to uncover how female deer take care of their fawns when they are new born. I also want to learn how deer learn to adapt to warmer and colder conditions and what they do differently. My last thing I would like to uncover is why deer have antlers, what are they used for? As I did some research I found out how bucks shed their antlers and grow them back to normal size. According to Antler Development “The male deer are the only deer that grow antlers; the only way a female deer can grow antlers is if they experience an issue with hormone testosterone levels which is very rare. White-tailed deer’s antlers grow bigger because of their age. To grow a big healthy rack they need access to quality nutrition and genetics” (Peirce 4). From this article, I uncovered that deer don't naturally grow massive racks randomly. This article showed the deer actually need good, high quality nutrition to have these racks because it takes a lot of nutrients and energy to have them. The next