One by one, a handful of mule deer bucks make their way up the steep slope on the far side of the pocket that lay between them and us. Through our binoculars we watch as they travel in single file, ...

A whitetail buck's antlers in springtime and summer are anything but the sharp, white, iconic, bony headgear we imagine. Bucks are "in velvet" at this time of year and their antlers are undergoing an ...

"Bucks dropping their antlers already." It’s becoming a common refrain in the late-season deer camp. And it’s true. Each year whitetail antler “drops” or “sheds” are picked up during deer season. And ...

At this time of year, mid-summer, a whitetail buck’s antlers are peaking toward maximum size. And when the antler’s external covering, velvet, is shed in early September, they appear smaller, white ...

Hunters are pretty good at quantifying antlers —— the best of us guessing with surprising accuracy the inches of bone on a running buck at 100 yards. But we’re lousy at understanding how that buck ...

Deer antlers represent a singular model of mammalian regeneration, exhibiting a remarkable capacity for rapid, complete organ renewal each year. This exceptional process is primarily driven by ...

A Pennsylvania hunter who has spent decades in the meat industry is sharing his theory about why bucks of the same year class have antlers of different sizes. Eric V. “Zeke” Zimmerman of Derry, ...

The study of deer physiology in relation to antler growth provides a window into complex metabolic and nutritional dynamics underpinning one of nature’s most striking examples of regenerative bone ...

The sambar is the most widespread deer species in the Asian region, but there are very few studies on their reproduction and antler development cycles. A new Sri Lankan study focusing on testosterone ...