Effects of sex, age, habitat and body weight on kidney weight in white-tailed deer.
Kidney (Y) and body (X) weights in kilograms are highly correlated (r = 0.88) in white-tailed deer. As in other mammals, the relationship between the two variables is curvilinear with Y = -2.493 X0.746. Habitat did not affect the parameters of the realationship although certain sex-age and sex month categories did. However, use of kidney weight in standardizing body condition indices in deer of different sizes still seems warranted for white-tailed deer in the southeastern United States during the hunting season because of the relatively high predictability of the overall kidney-body weight relationship.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D003670:Deer / Q000254:growth & development*; D004777:Environment; D005216:Fat Body / Q000254:growth & development; D007668:Kidney / Q000254:growth & development*; D009929:Organ Size; D011156:Population Density; D012737:Sex Factors; D013022:South Carolina