A white-tailed deer walks around O. P. Schnabel Park looking for food in this file photo from May. State park officials said a 3-year-old female white-tailed deer in a Kerr County breeding ...

As summer begins, white-tailed fawns appear right on cue, using stealth and instinct to survive their earliest days.

An annual event, white-tailed deer mating season – otherwise known as the rut – it’s the time of year when male deer, or bucks, are solely focused on wooing and breeding with female deer, or ...

It’s the period when female deer become ready to breed. And the primary thing on the minds of male deer is to find a receptive female. “It’s one of the driving factors of all nature, ...

A white-tailed deer walks around O. P. Schnabel Park looking for food in this file photo from May. State park officials said a 3-year-old female white-tailed deer in a Kerr County breeding ...

Rut is a term used to describe the mating behavior of deer during the breeding season. The rut is triggered by hormonal changes that occur as daylight decreases in the fall.

This is the first CWD detection in a deer breeding facility in the county. Two white-tailed deer — a 20-month-old male and an eight-month-old female — tested positive through ante-mortem ...

And it's primarily due to male deer, Because the male deer are out roaming around the land, looking for female deer to breed with,” Joe Caudell, Indiana DNR Wildlife Disease Biologist.