Males are light green with black or blue scale edges, but adult females may be brown.
The body is relatively slender, although adult females are more stout.
Last year, hunters killed about 220,000 deer in the state, of which more than 71,000 were adult females.
Two to seven adult females and one mature male occupy a shared home range, but cannot stay together for too long.
Those adult females that glow do so to attract a male for mating.
The structure of the system is usually one male, several adult females and various juveniles at different stages.
Most adult females lay at least one clutch every summer.
Family groups tend to be small, consisting of one or two adult females and their offspring.
A group containing more than two adult females plus offspring is known as a "joint family".
Female bats live in small groups, of about 50 animals, sometimes up to several hundred adult females.
