It’s a common belief in the world of deer that males have antlers and females don’t, but reindeer serve as the exception. Both male and female reindeer grow antlers. This is a trait that no ...

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. But what about reindeer?

“An XX deer is female,” said Schaefer. “An XY is male, but if you have an XXY with an extra chromosome, you get an animal producing hormones of both sexes.

Deer are the only mammals who are capable of regenerating lost or damaged body parts — their antlers. Every year, male deer (and some females) cast off and regenerate their antlers, a process ...

The antlers of male deer will harden as they grow up and use them for fighting during mating season, officials said. Female deer with high levels of testosterone can sprout antlers, officials said.

You can clearly see the velvet on them. Male deer, or bucks, grow and lose their antlers every year. The antlers begin growing in early spring and by late summer they are fully-grown.

Most outdoorsmen and women are crazy about antlers, whether they’re attached to a deer’s head or not. While most people know that male deer shed and grow a new set of antlers every year, many ...

Male deer grow new antlers every year. Telling the age of a deer by its antlers, however, isn’t easy. A 1-year-old buck will be the easiest to identify because it may have straight, small ...

In the 1980s, shortly before I was born, my father killed a male white-tailed deer in the woods of Oklahoma, harvested his flesh, and mounted his head. Years later, my brothers regaled me with the ...

For years, killing a whitetail or mule deer buck that still had velvet on its antlers typically meant a hunter had to travel to another state where the archery season opened in late August or very ...