While bucks are fattening their bodies and growing antlers, female deer (otherwise known as does) are preparing for a short period of breeding behavior or estrus. This breeding period, called deer ...

Large white-tailed deer buck shaking off rain in an open meadow during a rain storm in Smoky Mountain National Park. Motion blur from slow shutter speed© Tony Campbell/Shutterstock.com Every fall, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Grant Woods with a stud buck. During the whitetail pre-rut and rut, hunters should worry less about the type of weather that ...

Cellular trail cameras really are fantastic tools for researching a local deer herd and their habits. Last December on public land in Manatee County, at a time when the peak of the rut had been over ...

To start with it is tough to pinpoint the occurrence of the rut in a given year as if starts and peaks at different times in different areas of the state and is influenced by weather, range conditions ...

That time of year that many deer hunters wait and dream about all year. The peak of the whitetail pre-rut. But it has two sides. On the one hand, bucks are finally on their feet during the daytime, ...

Yet another white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mating season is behind us now. This year I spent a truckload of time in the woods following several large bucks who were actively searching for ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is warning drivers to watch out for deer, saying rutting season and daylight saving time are going to put more cars on the road when the animals are moving the most.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - It’s rutting season and the deer are on the move. Eric Deneault is with the Kansas Department of Parks and Wildlife and says it’s that time of year. “About the time when people ...

To start with, it is tough to pinpoint the occurrence of the rut in a given year as it starts and peaks at different times in different areas of the state and is influenced by weather, range ...