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.