Female Mule Deer and Fawn Photo Print

"Female Mule Deer and Fawn" by Catherine Sherman. A female mule deer and her fawn run across a clearing an evergreen and aspen forest on a mountainside in Boulder County, Colorado. The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America. This deer's large mule-sized ears give it its name. Mule deer are only found on the western Great Plains, in the Rocky Mountains, in the United States southwest, and on the West Coast of North America. The related white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is found through most of North America east of the Rockies Mountains and in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains from Idaho and Wyoming northward. The mule deer's tail is black-tipped, while the whitetail's is not. Mule deer antlers are bifurcated; they "fork" as they grow. Whitetail deer antlers branch from a single main beam.