A Healthy Oklahoma Whitetail Doe

By | October 8, 2012
A Healthy Oklahoma Whitetail Doe

A Whitetail Doe at the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma

This is a Whitetail Doe I photographed back in September while at the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. They have a great place to live and they always look healthy.


The white-tailed deer is a ruminant, which means it has a four-chambered stomach. Each chamber has a different and specific function that allows the deer to quickly eat a variety of different food, digesting it at a later time in a safe area of cover. The Whitetail stomach hosts a complex set of bacteria that change as the deer’s diet changes through the seasons. If the bacteria necessary for digestion of a particular food (e.g., hay) are absent it will not be digested. (Wikipedia)

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