Flight Order and Its Development in White-Tailed Deer

Differential flightiness of 5 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) age-sex classes and the flight response of fawns relative to their mothers was analyzed. Approach of an observer resulted in the general order of flight: adult male → fawn → maternal doe = other doe = yearling male. Flightiness...

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Published in:The Journal of wildlife management 1986-10, Vol.50 (4), p.699-701
Main Author: STUWE, M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Animal ethology
Biological and medical sciences
Deer
Deer hunting
Developmental biology
Fawns
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Insect flight
Learning
Mammalia
Odocoileus virginianus
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Vehicular flight
Vertebrata
Yearlings
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Summary:Differential flightiness of 5 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) age-sex classes and the flight response of fawns relative to their mothers was analyzed. Approach of an observer resulted in the general order of flight: adult male → fawn → maternal doe = other doe = yearling male. Flightiness of adult males is discussed as influenced by their more solitary behavior and/or their experiences accumulated with age. Does fled before their fawns in July, but fawns fled before their mothers from October through December. This may reflect a 2-stage learning process during which fawns 1st learn potential sources of danger from their mothers and then themselves learn to react appropriately.
ISSN:0022-541X
1937-2817
DOI:10.2307/3800984