Female Animals With Antlers

Antlers are extensions of an animal s skull found in members of the deer family.

Female animals with antlers. The only exception is the reindeer as both males and females grow antlers annually. There is news of a journal with evidence of a cow moose with antlers. Antlers are true bone and are a single structure.

Although it is not possible for female moose to grow antler. Adult female reindeer with antlers in velvet rangifer tarandus walking across upland moor in the cairngorms scotland. Cow horns are bones.

Those animals with true permanent horns usually have them in both sexes. In other species of deer the female can grow antlers if they have higher than normal testosterone levels. Mostly only male deer have antlers.

A functionally extant animal reindeer or caribou is another animal with antlers. For example male and female cattle including the many wild versions such as the african cape buffalo and wildebeest a kind of antelope have horns while in most other bovids only the males. However in case of high testosterone level because of a tumor in the brain or defects in ovaries she may develop a deformed rack of antlers.

This antler has two individual groups of a point such as upper and lower. Females of some species do have antlers like reindeer. While there are many famous horned animals like rudolph from rudolph the red nosed reindeer morty from northern exposure and bullwinkle from the adventures of rocky and bullwinkle and friends many more of these majestic animals have been gathered to test your knowledge of.

They are generally found only on males with the exception of the reindeer caribou. But reindeer are the only species in which the females also grow antlers and an explanation can be found by looking at bovids a closely related family including antelopes goats and sheep. Antlers are shed annually and they are usually present only in the males.