{"id":35201,"date":"2025-11-24T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35201"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:13:37","slug":"fencing-whitetails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35201","title":{"rendered":"Fencing, whitetails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first two items deal with white-tailed deer and fencing (not fighting with swords), but the last item does show fighting, but in play.<\/p>\n<p>Fences can serve a number of different purposes, but one of them is to keep domestic animals confined. Another is to prevent wildlife from accessing a region. The first two pictures suggest that these fences have questionable wildlife functionality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A female white-tailed deer easily jumps over a wire-mesh fence. These fences seem to be primarily developed to keep domestic animals in, not wild animals out. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35203\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/whitetaileddeer251111asccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A male white-tailed deer climbs under a simple rail fence, but the fence confines horses.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35202\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/whitetaileddeer251111as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A portrait of the same 2\u00bd year-old deer. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35206\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/whitetaileddeer251111b2s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are three whitetail spikehorns (1\u00bd years old). Two of them are play fighting and one has his head down. Male whitetails always seem to fight antler to antler. This is quite unlike the female whitetails shown <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35179\">earlier<\/a> who stood up and brandished their forelimbs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35209\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/whitetaileddeer251121as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The first two items deal with white-tailed deer and fencing (not fighting with swords), but the last item does show fighting, but in play. Fences can serve a number of different purposes, but one of them is to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35201"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35217,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201\/revisions\/35217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}