Comments on: Books & Video http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2010/01/29/books-video/ Shutterbug Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:24:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lee Dittmann http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2010/01/29/books-video/comment-page-1/#comment-39280 Lee Dittmann Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:54:24 +0000 http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/?p=908#comment-39280 Lynn, An identification book on California deer would be a slender one, since for most of the state there is only one species, with a second up in the northeast corner. In your region as in the majority of the state, there are mule deer only, of which black-tailed deer are lumped in. The other species is white-tailed deer. This actually constitutes the native deer fauna nationwide, though in some places, Eurasian species of deer and other ungulates have been introduced, especially, it seems, on large Texas ranches where they raise them for "sport" hunting. In the large mammal selection, we can't compete with southern Africa! I'm not sure that even 10-20,000 years ago when we had giant ground sloths, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, cheetahs, camels, and more than one kind of bison, North America had Africa's diversity! Lynn,
An identification book on California deer would be a slender one, since for most of the state there is only one species, with a second up in the northeast corner. In your region as in the majority of the state, there are mule deer only, of which black-tailed deer are lumped in. The other species is white-tailed deer. This actually constitutes the native deer fauna nationwide, though in some places, Eurasian species of deer and other ungulates have been introduced, especially, it seems, on large Texas ranches where they raise them for “sport” hunting.

In the large mammal selection, we can’t compete with southern Africa! I’m not sure that even 10-20,000 years ago when we had giant ground sloths, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, cheetahs, camels, and more than one kind of bison, North America had Africa’s diversity!

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