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Interesting facts about antlers.
Antlers are different than horns. Antlers shed or break off the animals skull every year, usually in mid winter to early spring. Horns are lifetime attachments. Examples of shedding antler animals are Deer, (Whitetail, Mule, Black Tail, Fallow), Elk, Moose, and Caribou. Moose antler being quite amazing by growing and shedding off sometimes as much as thirty or forty pounds every year. Examples of bearing animals are the Sheep family, Goats and Antelope. Horn bearing animals are lifetime appendages, growing each year until death.
Antlers grow larger each year also, until about half way through their life span, shedding off each year, then they start reducing their mass somewhat until death of the animal. Growth of antlers can be effected by the minerals available for the animal to eat.
Antlers have a special identifying mark-pattern on the burr end of the antler where they break off the skull every year. This mark- pattern is unique to each individual animal, like a finger print left and right antler have the same mark pattern when antler hunters go shed hunting for antler drops this mark is a certain give away to identify pairs of antlers and antlers and antlers from a previous year from the same animal. Some antler collectors collect five and six generations of antlers from the same animal with a surety that they are from the same animal. Relatives can be identified by similar patterns.
Antler configuration and shape can be used by an experienced eye to compare antler sources. Antler point similarities tell a story of relationship identity also.
Sometimes antler sheds can be found side by side and other times a mile or so away from each other.
Antler hunting is fast becoming a family sport here in the mountain states..
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