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In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian hind (Ancient Greek: Κερυνῖτις ἔλαφος Kerynitis elaphos, Latin: Elaphus Cerynitis), was a creature that lived in Ceryneia, [1] Greece and took the form of an enormous female deer, larger than a bull, [1] with golden antlers [2] like a stag, [3] hooves of bronze or brass, [4] and a "dappled hide", [5] that "excelled in swiftness of foot", [6 ...
Male muntjacs have short antlers, about 10 cm (3.9 in) long, that protrude from long body hair-covered pedicels above the eyes. Females have tufts of fur and small bony knobs instead of antlers. Males also have elongated 2–4 cm (0.79–1.57 in) long, slightly curved upper canines, which can be used in male-male conflicts and inflict serious ...
The brow-antlered deer is a medium-sized deer, with uniquely distinctive antlers, measuring 100–110 cm. in length with extremely long brow tine, which form the main beam. The two tines form a continuous curve at right angles to the closely set pedicels.
female reindeer with antlers. It's always easy to tell bucks from does in many of the deer species, because bucks (male deer) have antlers and does (female deer) don't.
Reindeer have more prominent and denser antlers than whitetail deer. However, the critical difference is in sexual dimorphism. Female reindeer have antlers, while female whitetail deer don’t.
Barking deer in Jim Corbett National Park, India A captive young Chinese muntjac buck with exposed canine tooth Head of a muntjac buck, showing the slanted, furred pedicles. Its antlers have been shed for summer. Skull of a buck in advanced maturity, showing canine tooth, slanted pedicles and branched antlers. A distinct coronet, or burr, is ...
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose).
Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world.