After a gestation period of 196 to 213 days, most fawns are born in late May and into early June. As the time of birth arrives, the doe lies down. Her body strains and movements aid in her labor.

Whitetail fawns usually hit the ground in May here in the Northeast and the Midwest, but depending on the timing of the rut, or peak breeding time in the previous fall, we observe them either ...

A rare piebald fawn was spotted in North Olmsted Tuesday afternoon. The sighting occurred off Gessner Road as Frank ...

Cramer remembers seeing a 4-day-old fawn making a scrape on the ground similar to what’s done by mature deer. “A doe doesn’t teach it that in four days. It’s something that’s instinctive ...

As summer begins, white-tailed fawns appear right on cue, using stealth and instinct to survive their earliest days.

And in the wild, some doe are barren, and don’t produce fawns every year. At first glance, one would think that it is beneficial for a buck to lose its antlers early. That way hunters wouldn’t ...

In the field, a fawn’s body is smaller and squarer than an older deer, which is rectangular; think of a fawn’s body as a briefcase and a doe’s as a suitcase. Fawns have a smaller head ...

And the super surprise is in the background: set against green foliage, a white doe and its white fawns are looking back. The deer are presented in a virtual mirror image. But with different ...

He began nibbling on tallow weeds, the fawn still with him. The doe, still invisible, had ceased to bleat. My curiosity subsided with that of the yearling, and I drove away. A deer that has interest ...

Coyotes potentially caused up to 63% of mortalities in white-tailed deer fawns in an Alabama population (Saalfeld and Ditchkoff 2007) and 80% of mortalities in a South Carolina population of ...