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ABSTRACT.--In May 2016 conjoined white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns were found deceased in southeastern Minnesota. The bodies of the fawns were joined ventrally and laterally with two separate necks and [...]

Melanic white-tailed deer are distinguished from normal white-tailed deer by having uniform black hairs on the back with subdued black hairs on the belly, a completely dark face and ears, a distinctive mid-dorsal stripe extending from the head to the apex of the tail and a tail with black dorsally and white ventrally. We report records for two melanistic white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania. A male fawn was captured in Valley Forge National Historical Park in 1999 and an adult male was harvested in Bucks County in 2002. Since at least one melanistic deer was produced in this region, there is a possibility another melanic deer will be produced in the future.

The hearing range of white-tailed deer determined by using auditory brainstem response detected frequencies to at least 30 kHz.

Spatial and genetic structure in white-tailed deer are examined using radiocollared and hunter or vehicle-killed on a 7,000-ha portion of the Savannah River Site in the upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina, USA. Results question the universal applicability of recently proposed models of spatial and genetic structuring in white-tailed deer, particularly in areas with differing harvest histories.