Species group · Mammals
Deer
WAnimals has 2 species of deer, all in the family Cervidae.
- 2 species
- 1 family
- 17 countries
- 35 parks
- Weight
- 24 kg – 150 kg
- Length
- 95 cm – 2.2 m
- Lifespan
- 12 – 14 years
Ranges calculated from the entries that record the figure, not from all 2.
All 2 species of deer on WAnimals
Each one has its own full entry. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
Conservation status
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
See the global conservation statusWhere they live
Recorded in 17 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Where to see them
Did you know…
It raises its tail to flash the white underside as an alarm signal to the rest of the group when it senses danger.
From White-Tailed Deer
As it flees it raises its tail to show the white underside, a signal visible at a great distance that alerts the rest of the group and that, according to some studies, tells the predator it has already been spotted.
From White-Tailed Deer
It went from fewer than half a million animals in the United States at the start of the 20th century to tens of millions today: a recovery so complete that its overabundance now prevents the forests of the east of the country from regenerating.
From White-Tailed Deer
The males give off a very strong smell of garlic from glands in their hooves, detectable several metres away, which marked their trail across the pampas and was much remarked on by 19th-century travellers.
From Pampas Deer
In Argentina fewer than two thousand animals are reckoned to remain, in four isolated populations, out of the millions that filled the pampas when the first colonists arrived.
From Pampas Deer