Initial and Subsequent Maternal Success of White-Tailed Deer
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 50 (1) , 122-124
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3801500
Abstract
Maternally unsuccessful 2-year-old white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) bred later and conceived more male progeny compared to successful mothers of the same age. We hypothesize that social factors modified the reproductive traits of these unsuccessful does, and they exhibited breeding characteristics typical of yearlings.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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