Antlers represent an enormous food and energy expense.
It would be one thing if they were grown just once, like a leg bone, but instead they are grown and shed and grown again.
Every year it's just more expense, and always-bigger antlers.
Amazing.
Saturday, December 07, 2019
A Very Expensive Boy's Club
Antlers represent an enormous food and energy expense.
It would be one thing if they were grown just once, like a leg bone, but instead they are grown and shed and grown again.
Every year it's just more expense, and always-bigger antlers.
Amazing.
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ReplyDeletewell,until they become 'old boys' with worn down teeth, and 'can't afford' a large rack. - - - then, the antlers get smaller, back down till they are fork-horn again.
ReplyDelete(for all I know, they might get down to spike, but I haven't seen that; and I do have the skull of an Old buck, with badly worn teeth, and just two points, on each side)
...these are California Blacktail..
well, Nature figured out a way to make sure the strong and fittest survive, and i trust Her....
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