Deer littermates have different dads

From Bloomington, Ind., at a meeting of the Animal Behavior Society

WHO’S YOUR DADDY? Paternity of Michigan fawns reveals that twins can be half-siblings. Sorin

Genetic analysis of white-tailed deer in a Michigan reserve has turned up what may be the first documentation of more than one father per twin litter in a big, free-ranging hoofed mammal.