Deer Facts

Deer are known to eat marijuana plants and have developed a taste for cannabis crops, causing significant problems for growers in legal states.

Eagles can attack, kill, and carry away young deer fawns, with the heaviest documented load being a 15-pound mule deer fawn carried by a bald eagle.

In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.

A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.

The Pudu deer is the world’s smallest deer. They live in bamboo thickets to hide from predators, and can weigh up to 12 kilograms.

A Maryland hunter pulled over to help a woman load a deer into her trunk. A car had hit it, and she was taking it home because her kids were hungry. In 1997, he got two butchers to process deer donated by hunters for food banks. His program has since handed out more than 24 million servings of meat. Every deer season, hunters still drop off deer at its butchers.