John Hafner Photography At a Glance Mule Deer Mule Deer vs Whitetail: Tails The tails of mule deer, left, and whitetails, right, are totally different, making it easy to differentiate the species from behind. These velvet-covered antlers are among the fastest-growing tissues known in Nature. Growing a new set begins in spring and ends in late summer or early fall. But typical racks of both species follow the basic rules above, and it takes only a little experience to differentiate a mature muley buck from even the largest whitetails by its antlers alone.īucks of both species shed their antlers every year, typically in late winter. A whitetail’s tines can fork, just as they can grow straight downward from the main beam (which is called a droptine) instead of upward. Obviously, there are exceptions to these basic configurations, and nontypical racks are grown by bucks of both species. Whitetail antlers, on the other hand, typically feature tines that grow straight upward from a pair of main beams. They typically have small, and often no, brow tines, and the other tines are usually “bifurcated”, which means they sport deep forks. Mule deer antlers are very distinctive and grow significantly taller and wider than most whitetails.
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