The Private Life of Deer: Video: Full Episode
A look at how wild deer interact with one another, and how they adapt to living in a suburban environment. Watch the full film online.

A look at how wild deer interact with one another, and how they adapt to living in a suburban environment. Watch the full film online.
Highly adaptable, whitetailed deer are able to succeed where other species cannot. Just a century ago there were around 1 million deer in North America. Today, there are 30 million. Learn about whitetail anatomy, their diet, habitat, and other deer facts.
Producer Kevin Bachar on how the filmmakers of "The Private Life of Deer" tracked and filmed populations of whitetailed deer in the suburbs of New York.
For whitetailed deer, the ability to run fast and jump high is a survival adaptation. They will jump in the wild to evade predators and overcome obstacles. In more suburban areas, deer can clear fences over 8 feet without a running start.
The ghost deer are whitetailed deer, colored completely white due to a lack of melanin—a natural pigment found in most organisms. It's a rare recessive gene; and, like humans, only about one out of 20,000 mammals are albino.
While other species may be negatively impacted by human development, it is just the opposite for the whitetail deer. A look at how wild deer adapt to living in suburban environments. The Private Life of Deer premieres Wednesday, May 8 at 8/7 on PBS (check local listings).
After being abandoned by her mother, a baby fawn, Pippin, was adopted by a Great Dane, Kate, and they have been best friends ever since.
After reaching Chamberlain Basin, Isaac and Bjornen come across white-tailed deer and their first glimpse of wolves in almost two months. The wolves and deer pay no attention. They're already intent on an ancient game. Watch the video.
The beginning of spring brings new signs of life. But not all creatures made it through the harsh winter.
(Airs Sunday, February 1) From the moment he is born, a red deer calf faces a life-long struggle to survive in the mountain wilderness of the Austrian Alps.
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