Black-tailed deer
Black-tailed deer at Alum Rock Park in northern California. Alum Rock Park, founded in 1872 was the first municipal park in the U California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Suborder: Ruminantia Family: Cervidae Subfamily: Capreolinae Genus: Odocoileus Species: O. hemionus Subspecies: O. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands The even-toed ungulates form the Mammal order Artiodactyla. They are Ungulates whose weight is borne (if they have more than two toes about The biological suborder Ruminantia includes many of the well-known large grazing or browsing Mammals among them Cattle, goats Sheep, Deer A deer is a Ruminant Mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. Capreolinae, also known as Odocoileinae (an invalid junior synonym) or the New World deer (denoting their place or origin not their current distribution Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized Deer that contains three species The mule deer ( Odocoileus hemionus) is a Deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. h. columbianus
Trinomial name
Odocoileus hemionus columbianus Richardson, 1829

Late July near Apiary, Oregon

Late July near Apiary, Oregon

Late July near Apiary, Oregon

Late July near Apiary, Oregon

Like all deer, black-tailed deer are herbivores. In biology trinomial nomenclature refers to names for taxa below the rank of species Sir John Richardson ( November 5, 1787 &ndash June 5, 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist For the game see 1829 (board game. Year 1829 ( MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display Herbivory is a form of Predation in which an Organism, known as a herbivore, consumes principally Autotrophs ref name=Campbell>Campbell

Male black-tailed deer, like this one from Olympic National Park, develop antlers in the summer. Male (♂ refers to the sex of an organism or part of an organism which produces small mobile Gametes called spermatozoa. Olympic National Park is located in the US state of Washington, in the Olympic Peninsula. Antlers are the usually large and complex horn -like appendages of most Deer species mostly worn by males only for some species such as Caribou by both

The Black-tailed deer, or Blacktail deer, (Odocoileus hemionus) is a species of deer found in western North America, specifically the Pacific Northwest region. A deer is a Ruminant Mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America (the term refers to the land not the ocean

Black-tailed deer once ranged at least as far as Wyoming. In Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail, an eyewitness account of his 1846 trek across the early West, while within a two-days ride from Fort Laramie, Parkman writes of shooting what he believes to be an elk, only to discover that he has killed a Black-tailed Deer. Francis Parkman ( September 16, 1823 &ndash November 8, 1893) was an American historian best known as author of The Oregon Trail Fort Laramie National Historic Site, located in present-day Goshen County, Wyoming The elk, or wapiti ( Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest Species of Deer in the world and one of the largest Mammals in

It is sometimes classified as a subspecies of the mule deer, as reflected in its scientific name Odocoileus hemionus columbianus as compared to the Rocky Mountain mule deer's Odocoileus hemionus hemionus. The mule deer ( Odocoileus hemionus) is a Deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. However this classification is not widely followed.

The Black-tailed deer is currently common in western Oregon and Washington as well as northern California. There remains confusion, however, over its proper classification. It is a very popular game animal. It thrives on the edge of the forest, as the dark forest lacks the underbrush and grasslands that the deer prefers as food, and completely open areas lack the hiding spots and the cover it prefers for harsh weather. It often is most active at dawn and dusk, and is frequently involved in collisions with automobiles.

See also

Mule Deer

External links

• A gallery of black-tailed Deer photographs from Cortes Island BC
• Description
• Excerpts from the book Black-tailed Deer of California
• Mule deer, of which some believe black-tailed deer are a subspecies