​The Sierra Madre Center
Welcome To The Sierra Madre Wildlife Center.
About the white-tailed deer
The white-tailed deer is highly variable in size, generally following Bergmann's rule that the average size is larger further away from the Equator.
North American male deer (also known as a buck or stag) usually weighs 60 to 130 kg (130 to 290 lb), but in rare cases, bucks in excess of 159 kg (351 lb) have been recorded. Mature bucks over 400 lb are recorded in the northernmost reaches of their native range, specifically, Minnesota and Ontario. In 1926, Carl J. Lenander, Jr. took a white-tailed buck near Tofte, MN, that weighed 183 kg (403 lb) after it was field-dressed (internal organs removed) and was estimated at 232 kg (511 lb) when alive. The female (doe) in North America usually weighs from 40 to 90 kg (88 to 198 lb). White-tailed deer from the tropics and the Florida Keys are markedly smaller-bodied than temperate populations, averaging 35 to 50 kg (77 to 110 lb), with an occasional adult female as small as 25 kg (55 lb).
White-tailed deer from the Andes are larger than other tropical deer of this species and have thick, slightly woolly looking fur. Length ranges from 95 to 220 cm (37 to 87 in), including a tail of 10 to 36.5 cm (3.9 to 14.4 in), and the shoulder height is 53 to 120 cm (21 to 47 in). Including all races, the average summer weight of adult males is 68 kg (150 lb) and is 45.3 kg (100 lb) in adult females.
Deer have dichromatic (two-color) vision with blue and yellow primaries; humans have trichromatic vision. Thus, deer poorly distinguish the oranges and reds that stand out so well to humans. This makes it very convenient to use deer-hunter orange as a safety color on caps and clothing to avoid accidental shootings during hunting seasons.
To the right here you can see our doe's partner a beautiful buck which has been our prize. Both where found on a reserve in terrible condition.
And as you can see below they are wonderfully happy in their new private home, where to the left is a gap for them to escape to when they need rest.
All our animals at our wildlife center are well cared for and have privacy, needs met and company when needed.
Meet our doe white-tailed deer, she is only young but we have had her out or center now for nearly a week and she is setteling in well with others.
