Deer can see certain colors such as hues of blues and yellows but deer cannot see red and green colors.
Deer just like dogs have dichromatic vision which means the can see all hues of blues and yellows but they are red-green color blind.
The dichromatic vision in deer makes it so the deer is not able to see most shades of color but it also heightens the visual sensitivity to movement.
Deer eyes lack the ultraviolet light filter that human and other longer-lived animals have, which means they see blues and other short-wavelength colors about twenty times better than we do.
Blue jeans are much more vivid to a deer than blaze orange.
Brightly colored flagging can help deer avoid contact with a fence.
Flagging should be in the blue to yellow spectrum and attached at waist height in 3 foot intervals along the fence.
These colors are recommended as deer have dichromatic vision and do not process the color red, orange or pink as well.
Deers are a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae.
Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae and Capreolinae.
Male deer of almost all species, as well as female reindeer, grow and shed new antlers each year.
5 facts about deer include.
White-tailed deer are browse for food at dawn and dusk.
White-tailed deer have good eyesight and hearing.
Only male deer grow antlers, which are shed each year.
White-tail deer are good swimmers and will use large streams and lakes to escape predators.
A young deer is called a fawn.
Deer also have amazing jumping abilities and can soar over an eight foot fence.
Deer's eyes are located toward the sides of their head so they have good vision behind them to see predators.
There are a wide variety of noises that deer make including bleats, whistles, whining sounds, loud snorts and squawks.