Aspects of Blood Chemistry in the White-Tailed Deer

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Abstract
Basic to an understanding of the biology of a species is adequate information on the chemical composition of the blood. A review of the readily available literature emphasizes a dearth of knowledge about the blood of cervids generally, although this group of mammals has significant economic importance. Wilber (1952) presented a brief item on the lipids in caribou blood. There are other scattered, and usually brief, reports of chemical constituents in the blood of cervids but apparently no extensive treatment of the subject has been made. Recently the opportunity presented itself of obtaining fresh blood samples from ten deer of the large herd inhabiting Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. This paper reports the results of chemical analyses of these samples.

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