When I was a budding deer nut, most hunters I knew didn’t know how to age a deer. I remember my uncle Lawrence walking up to pretty 6-point he’d shot, ticking off the points on the rack ...

For example, a deer with a girth of 35 inches at the chest would have an estimated live weight of 126 pounds, an estimated field-dressed weight of 99 pounds and yield around 57 pounds of edible ...

If one deer's food has more grit than another, its teeth will wear faster. The most accurate way to determine deer age is by analyzing thin cross-sections of their teeth.

A male deer doesn’t reach its full-size until about age 4. Up until then, most of their nutrition is going into their body first, then for growing antlers. So by age 5 a buck should have its ...

Antler development is one clue to the age of a deer, but can be highly variable depending mostly on nutrition and genetics. Many will sport spikes or forked antlers but some may carry a rack of ...

In patterns that may sound familiar, long-term studies reveal what elderly deer, sheep and macaques are up to in their twilight years. By Tim Vernimmen / Knowable Magazine Published Jul 21, 2024 ...

Deer cross a street in a suburb of Lexington, Ky. “Far from tame,” deer are “nonetheless experts at living with people,” Erika Howsare writes. (Pablo Alcala/The Herald-Leader/AP) Review by ...

Review The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors By Erika Howsare Catapult: 368 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org ...