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CUB'S CORNER
Here's a spot for the younger adventurers and those young at heart to learn more about the great outdoors with print out activities, coloring sheets & kid-friendly websites. You might want to print some out to keep around the cabin for those rainy days that sometimes happen. Click links below to see more.
Run, Rudolph Run!
It’s that time of year when we expect to hear the prancing and pawing of each little hoof on our rooftops. But that only happens once a year when the reindeer zoom through. We are more likely to encounter the reindeer’s close relative,
the white-tailed deer.
Below are some interesting fact that you may not know.
- Deer can also jump as high as 10 feet and as far as 30 feet, which is almost as long as a school bus.
- Deer have an excellent sense of smell that they constantly improve by licking their noses to keep them moist.
- Deer can hear upwards of 54,000 hertz—that’s similar to the average dog’s hearing.
- Deer have specialized muscles in the ears which allows them to turn in any direction without head movement.
- All species of deer have antlers, with the exception of the Chinese water deer. Instead of antlers, they have long canine teeth which can be as long as 8cm!
- As deer eyes are on the side of their head, they have 310 degrees’ vision. This is much more than humans, who have 180-degree vision. Deer also have very good night vision which is particularly useful at dawn and dusk when they are most active.
- Deer need to eat around eight pounds of vegetation per one hundred pounds of body weight per day.
- Many deer have evolved the capacity to "stot”—to both land on and take off from all four hooves in a single jump—as an aid to escape predators.
- The combined deer population of the United States and Canada is around 40 million
Make it Yourself
Click the words below to make a decorative centerpiece for your holiday table with things you might have on hand:
Seasonal Snack
Click the words below for a sweet and salty treat for any holiday occasion:
Coloring Page
Click the words below to open a coloring page
* Coloring pages from the Wildlife of PA coloring book from PA Game Commission
