Horns and Antlers
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As Autumn approaches, just before rutting season when all you can see is hardened antlers, as above, a soft velvety layer covers male deer antlers. While the velvet covering is indeed beautiful, its purpose is much more functional and protective than it looks. Deer velvet is a contributing factor to antlers being the fastest growing tissue of any mammal.
It's purpose is not to weatherproof. The velvet contains a network of blood vessels and nerves and acts as a protective layer for the hardening antlers underneath. It allows the antlers to reach their full potential so that they can be used by the male during rutting season, to bash other antlers, so to speak...
When velvet shedding happens, it is the signal that the rut is beginning.
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"Ughh... stop looking at me. My antlers are a mess, I'm covered in flies and all I have is this twig to chew on." The velvet was just coming off of the buck's antlers and looking a bit tatty but they looked all the more impressive for it. This herd of Red Deer are at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, England.
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A bent tree in the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma resembles a deer's antler at the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, Texas.
A fallow deer loosing the velvet skin around his antlers. It looks a bit bloody, but the velvet skin did its job, dies and falls down. leaving the now ready grown antlers. A sign that autumn's not too far away - and with it also the rutting season.
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This Red Deer Stag looks as if he is creating the elusion of larger antlers ……………….
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Saw this old abandoned car in a field and didn't notice until I got home that there are two sets of antlers in the back lol!
Looks like some folks were being silly or the deer were smart and hid in the back seat.
When in the country I use to find antlers that had been shed, trick is to beat the field mice to the prize. That is my tip of the day on getting antler tips.
This chap was quite impressive with his antlers and his stance. I took a quick shot then made our exit, making sure he didn't follow.
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4 male spotted deers at Bharatpur. How nice of them to give me a direct eye contact for this photo...
Portrait of an Altai maral stag, Altai wapiti or Altai elk (Cervus canadensis sibiricus) in the first light of the day. The antlers shine in that light
On an early morning drive near Madison Junction-in YNP-I spotted this feeding Bull Elk and was taken by the way the morning light was outlining his antlers...