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Why Are Antlers Fuzzy?
Every year, animals in the deer family go through a cycle of growing and shedding their antlers, those badass branched bones that come in handy for finding mates and finding. They don’t always look so ...
Controlling numbers is a huge undertaking. In the UK, where deer cause 74,000 traffic accidents yearly, the population has ...
A free-range buck so big that a family devoted their entire season to hunting him.
Deer rub their antlers against woody stems to remove the velvet from newly grown antlers and to mark out their territory. This is known as fraying. It may continue until late summer and causes strips ...
A couple of Kansas bowhunters shot their 250-plus inch target bucks, putting those deer in a class that most hunters only dream to see and making them a couple of the biggest known deer killed in ...
Deer can be born this way or the condition can be caused by an injury. The result is a buck that never sheds its antlers and accumulates velvet growth year after year. Read Next: 14-Year-Old ...
Indirect connections have been made between deer antler velvet and cardiovascular health and the management of uterine fibroids. However, a study directly examining the effects of a similar velvet ...
now carrying incredible spreads of velvet-covered antlers, follow along the trail of the stampede. Then, slowly, a recoil begins, and once again the deer drift to the north. No man can tell the ...
His theory about this deer, based upon a review of dozens of photos, is centered around hormonal deficiencies. Without testes, the lack of testosterone could help explain the permanent velvet and ...
Does deer antler velvet really boost IGF-1 levels? There is some evidence to suggest that deer antler velvet may help to increase IGF-1 levels in the body. However, more research is needed to ...