Mule Deer Body Composition: A Comparison of Methods

1 January 1985

journal article
research article
Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management

Vol. 49 (1) , 86-91
https://doi.org/10.2307/3801850

Abstract

Body composition was determined for four mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) by two different procedures. Body composition was estimated in vivo by dilution of tritiated water (HTO) into the total body water pool. Immediately after this in vivo trial, animals were euthanized and the carcasses chemically analyzed. Regression analysis revealed that chemical and HTO-based estimates of all components (water, fat, protein, and ash) were highly correlated. Results indicated that the HTO technique reliably estimated body composition in mule deer.

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