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Male fallow deer fighting Two sambar deer fighting, Silvassa, India. Antlers are unique to cervids. The ancestors of deer had tusks (long upper canine teeth). In most species, antlers appear to replace tusks. However, one modern species (the water deer) has tusks and no antlers and the muntjacs have small antlers and tusks.
Both male and female reindeer grow antlers. This is a trait that no other species in the deer family possesses. The reason, a peculiar result of circumstances and biological luck, reflects
A lord would want to hunt not just any deer, but a mature stag in good condition, partly for the extra meat and fat it would carry, but also for prestige. Hence, a hart could be designated "a hart of grease", (a fat stag), "a hart of ten", (a stag with 10 points on its antlers) or "a royal hart" (a stag which had been hunted by a royal personage).
White-tailed deer. All male deer have antlers, with the exception of the water deer, in which males have long tusk-like canines that reach below the lower jaw. [30] Females generally lack antlers, though female reindeer bear antlers smaller and less branched than those of the males. [31]
Reindeer vs. Whitetail Deer: Antlers Female reindeer have antlers, and notably retain their antlers during the winter. Male reindeer, on the other hand, lose their antlers during winter and regrow ...
While antlers are primarily a male instrument, reindeer are the only members of the deer family in which females are able to grow antlers as well. The sexes can be distinguished from each other by ...
Male O. v. nelsoni with antlers in velvet. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North, Central and South America.
However, bez tines occur frequently in Norwegian red deer. Antlers of Caspian red deer carry large bez tines and form less-developed cups than western European red deer, their antlers are thus more like the "throw back" top tines of the North American elk (C. canadensis), known as maraloid characteristics. A stag can (exceptionally) have ...