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106K views · 575 reactions | Deer 255 makes the longest distance migration for any mule deer tracked by scientists as of June 2024. In 2018 she migrated 242 miles across multiple state, federal, and private land jurisdictions, from the west side of the Tetons in Idaho to her winter range in the Red Desert of Wyoming. Animation by Pat Rodgers, Wyoming Migration Initiative, University of Wyoming | Wyoming Migration Initiative | Facebook

This astounding deer migrated 2,100 miles in Wyoming over 7 years! Since 2016, our team has followed a mule deer doe who migrates farther than all long-distance mule deer studied in North America — as far as we know. She is known as Deer 255, and this animation shows her spring 2022 journey across 200 miles, from Wyoming’s Red Desert all the way to Jackson Hole on the doorstep of Grand Teton National Park. The animation also maps out ten of Deer 255’s migrations totaling 2,100 miles. For perspec