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Antler comes from the Old French antoillier (see present French : "Andouiller", from ant-, meaning before, oeil, meaning eye and -ier, a suffix indicating an action or state of being) [3][4] possibly from some form of an unattested Latin word *anteocularis, "before the eye" [5] (and applied to the word for "branch" or "horn" [4]).
Who doesn’t love antlers? National wildlife refuges are home to many thousands of antlered animals from Wyoming to California to Alaska, from Washington state to the Rockies, from the upper Midwest to northern New England.
An extension of the deer’s skull, each deer antler is a single, miraculous structure made of bone, cartilage, skin, nerves, blood vessels and fibrous tissue. Antlers are shed and regrown every year, and are used as weapons, symbols of sexual prowess, and as tools to dig in the snow for food. Members of the Cervidae family (deer) are the only mammals that grow antlers, and the annual process ...
Deer Antlers - Facts About Antlers & The Deer That Grow Them
Have you ever seen an antler? There are many species of animals with antlers. Learn more about this important feature, what it's made of and more.
Other articles where antler is discussed: artiodactyl: Social behaviour: Horns or antlers eventually functioned to maintain head contact during struggles rather than to bruise, slash, or gore. This stylized fighting, in which the competing males interlock horns or antlers and try to “outwrestle” each other, minimizes the danger of killing an opponent of the same species…