Evolutionary History
Classification
Kingdom- Animalia
Lacks cell walls, multicellular, and heterotrophic.
Phylum- Chordata
White Tailed Deer have an endoskeleton, is triploblastic, has a spine and a full digestive track.
Class - Mammalia
The white-tailed deer is warm-blooded, has a four chamber heart, hair, has live births, and has mammary glands to nurse its young.
Order- Artiodactyla
This means even toes, four toes on each foot. The Artiodactyla are the most successful of all herbivores with approximately 240 different species.
Family- Cerdivae
The entire deer family has even toes on each foot. The deer family is known to be grazers eating; berries, thickets, grass, flowers, herbs, farmers' crops, and fruit to name some of their dietary intake.
Genus- Odocoileus
Relatively small deer with short ears, males antlers come off the main beam female tend to not have antlers, tails are roughly 6” to 12” in length and white underneath. Deer are reddish brown in summer and grayish in winter. Deer's offspring (fawn) are same color sprinkled with white dots.
Species- Odocoileus virginianus
All of the above information about the classification makes the white-tailed deer.
Kingdom- Animalia
Lacks cell walls, multicellular, and heterotrophic.
Phylum- Chordata
White Tailed Deer have an endoskeleton, is triploblastic, has a spine and a full digestive track.
Class - Mammalia
The white-tailed deer is warm-blooded, has a four chamber heart, hair, has live births, and has mammary glands to nurse its young.
Order- Artiodactyla
This means even toes, four toes on each foot. The Artiodactyla are the most successful of all herbivores with approximately 240 different species.
Family- Cerdivae
The entire deer family has even toes on each foot. The deer family is known to be grazers eating; berries, thickets, grass, flowers, herbs, farmers' crops, and fruit to name some of their dietary intake.
Genus- Odocoileus
Relatively small deer with short ears, males antlers come off the main beam female tend to not have antlers, tails are roughly 6” to 12” in length and white underneath. Deer are reddish brown in summer and grayish in winter. Deer's offspring (fawn) are same color sprinkled with white dots.
Species- Odocoileus virginianus
All of the above information about the classification makes the white-tailed deer.