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blacktail

/ ˈblækˌteɪl /

noun

  1. a variety of mule deer having a black tail

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Renamed Wind Wolves, it is now the largest privately owned nature preserve on the West Coast, where endangered kit foxes and leopard lizards thrive along with elk, blacktail deer, great horned owls and bobcats.

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While aboard, watch for eagles, lupine and magenta paintbrush wildflower displays, as well as mountain residents such as foxes, blacktail deer and Roosevelt elk.

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The program has since provided Meyer with hunts for whitetail, mule deer, blacktail deer, mountain lion, alligator, black bear and hogs.

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The blacktail reef shark in Australia and Nepalese tiger populations have both shown signs of recovery.

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In 30 years of snake handling, Wyant has had “one and hopefully my only” venomous snake bite, incurred while trying to force-feed a sick blacktail rattler in 1992.

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