There are an estimated 35 to 36 million deer in the U.S. Once hunted almost to extinction, they have made a successful recovery. In some states, deer are so plentiful that regular hunting is needed to ...

Bambi’s journey is less about the passage to adulthood and more about the loss of innocence. It charts a shift from childish joy to a self-imposed solitude — a coping mechanism for a male deer ...

In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...