The Cervidae includes 20 genera and ca. 90 species in two subfamilies: the Cervinae (true deer and the muntjac) and the Capreolinae (roe deer, brockets, white-tailed and mule deer, caribou, moose, etc.). Deer are widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas, with one species in the northwest of Africa. They inhabit a wide range of habitats, from tundra to the tropical rainforest, but most species occur in temperate deciduous and tropical seasonal forests, coniferous forest, and savanna. Deer are browsers; they feed primarily on twigs, leaves, grasses, fruit, fungi, and lichens. Male deer of most species, and female caribou, grow and shed new antlers each year.

		White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
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