antler
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Except for female caribou, only male deer grow antlers , which they shed each year.
one of the branched horns on the head of an adult (usually male) deer, which are made of bone and are grown and cast off annually.
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The branch next to the head is called the brow 'antler' .
If you are lucky enough to live on the outskirts of a forest, there is a great chance that you will spy an 'antler' or two, usually at dusk.
combs made of 'antler'
Teeth from a woolly rhino were also found, with a reindeer 'antler' and a deer bone that had been split to extract the marrow.
Here's a closeup of Mike now that his velvet has vanished, showing the injury on his right brow 'antler' .
The two branch fork 'antlers' are yellowish-red in the surface and have sparse, rough hair.
Female reindeer rule over males during the short season when males have shed their 'antlers' prior to growing new ones and the females have not yet shed theirs.
After the fuzzy velvet is stripped off (sometimes in sparring matches which precede the rut), the 'antlers' of both males and females become a pure, shining white.
The principal season for deer harvest was August to January, based on patterns of mandibular tooth eruption and 'antlers' attached to male crania.
Remedies to right the imbalance include snake gallbladder, powdered deer 'antlers' , and rhinoceros horn, as well as hundreds of different combinations of herbs.
Reindeer, both wild and semi-domesticated, are the only members of the deer family in which both sexes grow 'antlers' .
Bulls and cows in the Tsaatan herd grow velvety racks of 'antlers' .
None of the women, but three of the five men in the drawing have horns on their head; the elaborate branched 'antlers' of the stag, curling horns of rams, and the pronged horns of the antelope.
The mammalian liver can regenerate if a part of it is removed, the 'antlers' of male deer regenerate each year, and fractured bones can mend by a regenerative process.
We also watched a fine 'antlered' stag grazing on succulent bushes, our approach masked by the sound of a waterfall.
In most cervids, only males have 'antlers' (but both sexes bear them in caribou).
They had been beaten out of strips and sheets of brass and depicted a number of themes: a hunter with a bow and arrow shooting an 'antlered' deer, people riding an elephant, two snakes, two women holding hands.
They grow from pedicles that form at puberty and which, in time, become permanent protuberances from where 'antlers' bud and are cast seasonally.
I now realise it's actually a feeding station for large 'antlered' beasts of the night.
A Venetian-style chandelier cast from deer 'antlers' was suspended above.
Except for female caribou, only male deer grow 'antlers' , which they shed each year.
The antler measurement provides a very precise time for the death of this animal, since caribou form and cast their 'antlers' annually, and females keep theirs throughout the winter.
Female reindeer are the only deer species to grow 'antlers' as well as the male, but they only sprout in winter.
Meanwhile, Lister cast doubt on another possible explanation for the deer's demise - the male's huge 'antlers' .
The ditch around Stonehenge would have been dug using animal bones and deer 'antlers' to loosen the underlying chalk.
The 'antlers' of the giant deer, or Irish elk, grew as large as 10 feet across.
Naked bone, such as 'antlers' become after velvet is shed, cannot function in heat transmission because their blood supply is lost.
If you remember your zoology classes well, a ‘stag’ is also a male deer, with 'antlers' .
Look into their big old reindeer eyes and you'll wish you could love those wise-cracking 'antlered' darlings to pieces, but then they lumber into the air and break the spell.
And they expect all manner of 'antlered' creatures to bound out into the road, even in the middle of Penicuik.
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