Keeping The Watch by Jim Hansel

Keeping The Watch

Keeping The Watch
by Jim Hansel
11 3/4" by 16 3/4"
Framed Size 21 3/4" by 26 3/4"

Conservation Framing
Each double mat may vary from print to print according to which frame you choose. If you would like to
have a particular color of mat just email sales@watsonswildlife.com to place your order. The best matching color is used for
each individual print and is not always the color shown here.

Each print is framed using Conservation Acid Free & Lignin Free, Alkaline pH buffered mat board & backing.
We use non glare glass, You may call us to request regular glass if you like, Other styles of glass are available.
In conservation framing, We use only Museum Quality materials and procedures that will have no adverse
effects on a piece of artwork and will protect the artwork from external damage.

Deer, common name for certain hoofed, artiodactyl mammals, usually characterized by bony, often branching antlers that are shed and regenerated annually. Deer range through the Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The largest populations occur in mixed wooded and open land. The first deer appeared in the early Oligocene epoch in Asia, about 38 million years ago.

Deer usually have lithe, compact bodies and long, powerful legs. They are also excellent swimmers. As ruminants, or cud chewers, they have a four-chambered stomach. Nearly all deer have a facial gland, in front of each eye, that contains a strongly scented substance, or pheromone, used to mark its home range. All deer except the musk deer, which make up the genus Moschus, have a liver without a gallbladder. The musk deer, along with the Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis), also differs from other species in that it has no antlers and its upper canines have developed into tusks.

In most species antlers form only on males. Solid and bony, they are used to slash territorial markings on trees or bushes, to make threatening displays, and to combat other males. Antlers vary in size by species and depending on the quality and quantity of food. Many deer species group into families around the female, with the male often becoming solitary; others live mainly in pairs. Deer forage on vegetation and feed most actively at twilight. The female gives birth once a year, usually to one or two fawns. The gestation period lasts from 160 days to ten months.

Different kinds of deer include the white-tailed deer, or Virginia deer (Odocoileus virginianus); mule deer and black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus); American elk, or wapiti (Cervus elaphus); moose (Alces alces), known in northern Europe as elk; and reindeer, or caribou (Rangifer tarandus). Deer are hunted for sport and for their meat, known as venison.

Scientific classification: Deer make up the family Cervidae of the order Artiodactyla.
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