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An antler on a red deer stag. Velvet covers a growing antler, providing blood flow that supplies oxygen and nutrients. Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone. [6]
Its antlers are strong enough to dig the earth for food like moss and lichen. It also uses its hoofs to break through and shovel through the snow. Little wonder its second name, caribou, means ...
Velvet antler is the whole cartilaginous antler in a precalcified growth stage of the Cervidae family including the species of deer such as elk, moose, and caribou. Velvet antler is covered in a hairy, velvet-like "skin" known as velvet and its tines are rounded, because the antler has not calcified or finished developing.
Yellow flowers having the greatest measure of reflectance. [5] It is more typical to observe UV coloration in purple, red and yellow flowers while white and green ones are less likely. [2] Generally flowers that are white or green tend to be wind pollinated; where being a bright color isn't necessary. [2]
While an antler is growing it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone. [62] Antlers are considered one of the most exaggerated cases of male secondary sexual traits in the animal kingdom, [63] and grow faster than any other mammal bone. [64]
A stampede at a soccer stadium in the city of Nzerekore, Guinea, has killed 56 people, the government of Guinea said on Monday. Guinea's prime minister, Amadou Oury Bah, said in a post on X that ...
Idina and Kristin performed a brand new song in the movie. The pair’s surprise appearance occurred during the “One Short Day” sequence, in which Erivo’s Elphaba and Grande’s Glinda ...
Rhus typhina, the staghorn sumac, [5] is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae, native to eastern North America. It is primarily found in southeastern Canada, the northeastern and midwestern United States, and the Appalachian Mountains, [6] but it is widely cultivated as an ornamental throughout the temperate world.