Determining Age of White-Tailed Deer from Layers in Cementum of Molars
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 30 (1), 197-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3797905
Abstract
The ages of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) can be determined from alternate light and dark layers occurring in the dental cementum of M1. The method used in counting the layers does not require histological techniques.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Aging White-Tailed Deer by Annuli in the Cementum of the First IncisorThe Journal of Wildlife Management, 1966
- SEASONAL ANNULI IN THE CEMENTUM OF THE TEETH OF BARREN GROUND CARIBOUCanadian Journal of Zoology, 1963