The researchers used data on the length of dung beetle horns, the body size of salmon, the duration of fiddler crab fights, the antlers of roe deer and other ornamentation among birds, mammals ...

That’s how it works for most deer species—the roe deer actually grows its antlers through the winter and spring and then casts them off in the autumn. The single antler doesn’t appear to ...

Jean-Michel Gaillard comments, "Our results provide evidence that antler size of male roe deer mainly reflects their age and body mass, and is more resilient to variation in environmental ...

Well, sort of. In August, a hunter shot an elderly roe deer bearing a single, centered antler in the forests of Slovenia, reports National Geographic.

A Model for Optimization of Roe Deer Management in Central Europe, The Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Oct., 1980), pp. 837-848 ...

The roe deer has a white rump patch of hairs that can be erected into a large disk. Its tail is small. The roe deers antlers are short (8"-9"/20-23 cm) with two or three points on each side.

Having antlers is one of the traits that make deer distinctive from horned animals in the antelope family, including cows, goats, sheep and bison. Antlers differ from horns in several notable ways.

Books Received Published: 07 January 1928 Hunting and Stalking the Deer: the Pursuit of Red, Fallow, and Roe Deer in England and Scotland HERBERT MAXWELL Nature 121, 6–7 (1928) Cite this article ...