Deer are beautifully adapted so they can survive and fluorish in a wide vary of environments.

From the Hunting and Fishing Library on Whitetailed Deer: "The rumination process allows whitetails to digest a wide variety of plant material. Primarily grazers, deer gain weight quickly during the growing season by consuming grasses, forbs, legumes, agricultural crops (especially corn and soybeans), flowers, nuts, fruits, vegetables, emergent aquatics, mushrooms, winter buds of woody plants, and high-moisture succulents such as cactus."

Beacause deer have no upper front teeth they pinch food off between their lower front teeth and the tire tread roof of their mouth. So BSK you're right, they can't mow grass down like a cow can, but grass is one of their main foods.

Dan O.