White-tailed deer: These icons of Texas roam most of the U.S. By Staff writer Updated Jan 14, 2021 5:09 p.m. A white-tailed deer can leap up to 9 feet high and as far as 30 feet.

Today, there are around 700,000 deer in Highland Scotland. Numbers rose so quickly in the first half of the 20th century that the government created the Red Deer Commission in 1959.