Stag of Virginia

See also: Roe-deer (homonymy)

The stag of Virginia , roe-deer (with the Canada), cariacou , or stag with white tail ( Odocoileus virginianus ) is a Cervidé originating in America (of the Canada to the Brésil), it was introduced into many other countries the such Finland, the Czechoslovakia or the New Zealand.

The stag of Virginia east one of large the Mammalian most common of the America. With the the United States, one estimates that its current population is 30 million animals. He saw mainly in the east of the Rocky Mountains, in the Forêt S, Marais and Clairière S. One can distinguish 38 subspecies S from the odocoileus virginianus . In the Western part of its habitat, it can exist beside the Cerf hémione, a very close species.

The animal can measure up to 2 Mètre S length and 1 meter with the garrot. A male, normally, weighs between 60 and 100 kg, but there were animals as heavy as 160 kg. The female weighs normally between 40 and 60 kg. The males which are more than one year old have wood, which develop each year, starting towards the end of spring. Wood reach their maximum size at the end of the summer, and remain until the next winter.

The stag of Virginia represents softness. It is unfortunately accustomed to crossing the roads without fearing the cars which circulate there too often at high speed. These animals are not always on the panels… what in fact sometimes of the dangerous obstacles. These large animal of America causes each year nearly 130 to 150 deaths because of Accident S of the road or even of brawls implying this Espèce. The stag of Virginia becomes bolder in autumn (especially in November, season of the rut) whereas food is done rarer.

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