Ive noticed on a lot of hunting videos, that some deer on the videos have bobbed or very short tails,, and this evening, I had an eight pointer come in and mill around at 15 yards for a while, and make a scrape and clean out another,, anyway, he had a tiny stub of a tail, about 2 inched long. Like I said, before, Ive also seen this in some hunting videos, do they lose them to coyotes or other predators? Or is it something else? Im just curious about it, he was a funny looking guy, I was wondering while I watched him how it worked, since other deer always twitch their tail while they are moving about, and expecially when they start to walk, I watched him, and his little stub wiggled back and forth when he started to walk away from his scrape,,lol. Kinda funny.