White-tailed Deer

The tail is the whole point of the name — flipped up as a bright white flag, it's an alarm signal that tells every other deer in earshot to run, and gives fawns something to follow through thick brush. Their eyes sit on the sides of the head for nearly 310 degrees of vision, which is why a deer can seem to spot you the instant you shift your weight. Fawns arrive in late spring, spotted and nearly odorless, and spend their first weeks lying motionless in tall grass while their mother feeds nearby.