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"Deer Buckaroo" is the 3rd episode of the Season 6 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 137th episode of the series overall. It premiered on April 17, 2019.
Synopsis[]
The Wild Kratts team remembers their deer fawn friend, Buckaroo, from a few years ago. They realize he's a full-grown white-tailed deer by now, so they spread out a search to find him while learning about deer society, antlers, and the life of a fawn.
Characters[]
Animals[]
Animation[]
Note: Featured animals are in bold.
- White-tailed Deer: Buckaroo
- Western Honey Bee
- Coyote
- Bald Eagle
- American Black Bear (called black bear)
- Gray Wolf (called wolf)
- Golden Eagle
- American Red Squirrel (called red squirrel)
Live Action[]
Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.
Trivia[]
- This is their first deer based episode.
- Chris was missing his gloves in the scene where he deactivated Bald Eagle Power.
- At the end of the episode, Chris is somehow able to activate White-tailed Deer Power even though Aviva only made one disc and gave it to Martin.
Key Facts and Creature Moments[]
- Male deer grow antlers and shed them each year near winter, they are used as weapons to fight over females.
- A male white-tailed deer is called a buck, females are called does and babies are called fawns.
- Antlers are made of bone and are grown and shed each year, they also fed by blood vessels in an outer layer of velvet coating that needs to be rubbed off on trees, only deer have antlers.
- Horns are made of keratin and grow continuously throughout the animals life, with blood vessels inside them.
- Deer fawns have spotted coats for camouflage, and have virtually no scent to hide from predators.
- A deer fawn lying in the grass to hide from a coyote.
- A deer fawn can already walk about an hour after its birth.
- White-tailed deer can leap 30 feet and run at 35 mph.
- One deer can have a home range of 500 acres.
- White-tailed deer live for 6 years in the wild, deer have tough lives due to having to avoid and evade lots of predators.
- Deer have eyes located to the side of their head for well rounded 310 degree vision, they also have great senses of smell and hearing to detect and avoid predators.
- Deer like to sit and rest with the wind blowing behind them so they can detect a predators scent more easily and escape if they are hunted from behind.
- White-tailed deer raise their signature white tails to signal to the rest of the herd that danger is approaching and to follow each other to safety.
- Deer have to worry about being hit by cars when crossing roads.
- Male deer battles can sometimes end in serious injury or death.
- Two male white-tailed deer fighting with their antlers to win over females.
- A golden eagle attempting to catch a deer fawn.
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