Big Pine Key makes for a hospitable deer habitat in part because the refuge is a veritable buffet for them: More than 150 different species of plants have been found in the stomachs of Key deer here.

“White-tailed deer are the most important game species in North America,” says Kip Adams, chief conservation officer for the National Deer Association, in the NDA’s latest Deer Report. “More hunters ...

Deer mice construct spherical or cup-shaped nests of shredded plant fibers, fur, and feathers under logs, stumps, rocks in the abandoned dens of other mammals, but prefers natural cavities of tress.