White-Tailed Deer
Subtitle: Ecology and Management
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: October 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780811704861
Subjects: Conservation of wildlife & habitats; Hunting or shooting animals & game; Mammals; Sports & Recreation; Individual Species Of Mammals; Nature/Ecology; White-tailed deer; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; General; Ecology; Wildlife Management
First sentence: Artiodactyls-even-toed ungulates in which the body weight is supported by the third and fourth metapodials (paraxonic)-had their beginning in the family Dichobunidae during the Eocene Epoch (36-58 million years ago) in both North America and Eurasia (Dawson 1967, Rose 1982) (Figure 1).