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Photo of the Month - February 2012

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This photo was added to the Nature Canada Flickr Group by Jim Cumming. Thank you for sharing your love for nature, Jim!

Although we can’t be sure, there’s a good chance that this picture is of a white-tailed deer. Common throughout most of southern Canada, the United States and parts of South America, the white-tailed deer is the smallest member of the deer family.

During the winter, they generally keep to coniferous forests that can shield them from harsh weather conditions. White-tailed deer are herbivores, and their diet consists of a variety of leaves, twigs, fruits and nuts, grass, corn, alfalfa, and even lichens and other fungi.

Cool fact: deer can leap as high as three meters and as far as nine meters in a single bound.

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