Maroon. Crimson. Burgundy. Purplish. Dark red. Blood but any other name is not quite the same. If you know, you know. If you don’t — and you run across dark-red blood — you might well be dealing with the blood trail of a liver-hit deer.
Trailing a liver-hit deer (described later in this article) is an ordeal in and of itself. But unraveling just why liver blood is the color that it is can be a fascinating lesson in deer physiology. Recent insights from a scientific study on white-tailed deer in Poland reveal exactly why liver blood is a color all its own.
THE STUDY
Researchers set forth to study
