By eating this way, a deer can gobble up a lot of food quickly, then go to a safer place to chew it. Fur coats help deer survive cold weather. Hollow brown hairs trap air and act like the insulation in your winter jacket. A thick layer of underfur adds extra warmth. Snow, wind, and water cannot penetrate these hairs to the skin, so deer stay warm and dry.
Some whitetails are much larger than that.
The biggest one ever recorded in the United States was a 500-pound Minnesota buck. Minnesota has about 1 million white-tailed deer. Deer are so adaptable they are found in every county. They live in farmlands, deep forests, and wide-open bog country. Early American Indians hunted deer for meat and deerskins to make soft moccasins, pants, and shirts.