Mule deer
Amazing fact
Mule deer leave a scent trail from glands between their toes.
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Mule deer leave a scent trail from glands between their toes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Mule deer
- Scientific name
- Odocoileus hemionus
- Japanese name
- ミュールジカ
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Cervidae
- Genus
- Odocoileus
A deer of western North America, it lives in a wide variety of habitats other than the Arctic tundra.
With its large ears and excellent eyesight, it can detect danger from very far away.
Some spend summer at higher elevations and move lower for winter, partly because of falling temperatures, heavy snowstorms and deep snow.
How the Mule deer lives
It often feeds on leaves and twigs from trees and shrubs. In summer, it eats plentiful food and stores fat. In winter, it uses less energy and lives on less food. Females form groups with other females related through their mothers.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Weight
- 43–150 kg
- Range
- Western North America
Where the Mule deer has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ミュールジカ
- 简体中文
- 骡鹿
- 繁體中文
- 騾鹿
- 한국어
- 노새사슴
- Español
- Ciervo mulo
- Français
- Cerf mulet
- Deutsch
- Maultierhirsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Veado-mula
- Italiano
- Cervo mulo
- العربية
- الأَيِّل الآذَن
- Русский
- Чернохвостый олень
- Türkçe
- Katır geyiği
- ไทย
- กวางมิวล์
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Odocoileus hemionusChecked: 2026-11-04
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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