Emily Kantner

If you’re thinking wolves, coyotes, or cougars, think again. The predator deer fear most walks on two legs. A study conducted in 2018 at the Jones Center at Ichauway in southwest Georgia found whitetails were significantly more spooked at the sound of “super predator” humans than any other predator...

Vampire deer sound like something out of a bad horror flick. But some small cervid species primarily found in Asia sport curved tusks, or fangs, measuring 2 to 3 inches on top of their petite frames. These vampire deer, such as the Chinese water deer and Siberian musk deer, don’t grow antlers—or...

Hailing from a non-hunting family, Jeff Sturgis is a self-taught whitetail habitat expert. With a passion for bowhunting bucks and the very little food plot guidance available in the 90s, he was forced to just figure it out. Three decades and hundreds of designed parcels later, Sturgis said “there...

Most whitetail hunters have at some point inhaled the strong stench wafting from a rutting buck’s tarsal glands. While they may recognize it as the calling card of a mature deer, that’s about the extent of most folks' olfactory understanding. However, for the sake of pursuing an animal that...