Deer hunters must process deer activity and deer behavior and respond accordingly. Deciding when a hunter can move around or ...

Hunters have been trying to understand how the moon affects animal behavior since cavemen etched pictographs on cave walls. Today, biologists acknowledge a link between the full moon and estrus cycles ...

Fall means mating season and an increase in vehicle-versus-deer crashes. The 387 crashes in the state from October to December last year were equivalent to one crash every six hours, according to the ...

It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter, because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all include ...

The wind was blowing so hard I had to pick my hat up off the ground, twice. The warm, early-season sun beat down on me as I picked my way along a tree line to a big oak I’d eyeballed a week or so ...

Every fall, Arizona’s wild areas are full of energy as thousands of white-tailed deer enter the rut—their annual mating season. Fueled by instinct and testosterone, bucks throw caution to the wind in ...

Nebraska is home to two species of deer: the white-tailed deer and the mule deer. Though both belong to the Cervidae family and often are found in overlapping habitats, they exhibit several notable ...

We often hear about rabid raccoons, but deer? “It’s most common in skunks and fox and raccoons and bats, but any mammal could ...

An effort to re-establish a population of endangered Columbian White-tailed deer at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge is off to a shaky start, but biologists remain hopeful that fawns born this ...

Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

SERC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Taking the controversial approach that deer hunting has become more a "social event" than an affirmation of the more basic human ...