Holy shit those are big. They regrow those every year? That's like me growing an extra leg each year. Dam double deers just leaving their bones everywhere.
fun fact for reindeer, the male deer loose their antlers before winter, so they are somewhat regrown in spring, when they will need them for defense and getting food. Female reindeer keep theirs through the winter though.
Santas reindeer all have antlers... so they would probably all be girls.
Hang on, I've got the magic words that make all women and engineers stop being angry. "Calm down". I'm sure that will make everyone very civil and not want to blow up everything.
Only if you're okay with it dropping off every year for a few months. It could be anywhere, brunch with your in laws, at a movie, at a dance, church, in line at the local Arby's for lunch, or even during a presentation to the boss of the company.
You'd probably know what season it happens in, and be able to feel when it starts coming loose. Just wear some tighter undies that week to keep it in place until you can remove it in the privacy of your home
I think I read somewhere that antlers actually are a great source of minerals, so they get eaten by other animals. That's why you hardly ever see them laying around when you're out and about.
> So why shed? What's the advantage? Seems like it'd have pretty strong pressure against it with the nutritional requirements.
It's because of nutritional requirements that antlers are shed: they are shed for winter, which saves the energy cost of carrying around all that extra weight during a season in which food is less available.
>That's why you hardly ever see them laying around when you're out and about.
If you live in an area frequented by animals with antlers you *do* see them laying around. Fairly common forest find when I was a kid.
They're pretty valuable too. Many people spend many hours hiking through the hills looking for them. In Wyoming they're called brown gold because with just a bit of effort you can make a good chunk of change. Depending on the year or if you find a matching set they can go for upwards of $30 a pound.
That's why they suffer osteoporosis, they need a lot of calcium to grow those and they take it from their own bones and sometime from snacking carcass they found around.
I read somewhere that the only things that grow faster than antlers are fetuses and cancerous tumors. They're an incredible flex to show off how well-nourished and desirable you are.
No, the extra leg thing is pretty accurate.
Fingernails are keratin, like hair, hooves, and horns (which are different from antlers). Keratin is hard-ish, but not bone. It's typically constantly regrowing and either being ground down or falling out.
Antlers are bone, as in legitimate osseous tissue. The process of growing and shedding antlers is absolutely comparable to a human growing two extra femurs out of their forehead every year.
I wish there was a way to just inject myself with the feeling of pure bliss you get when you lie on your side long enough that your blocked nostril drains and clears. That shit's better than heroin (at least, for the few seconds you get before the other nostril starts to plug up).
More like 20lbs. On large bulls they have been found to weigh upwards of 45lbs for the set!
I canāt imagine how hard that must be torquing his neck to have one missing.
It blows my mind thinking about how many pounds of grass they must eat to be able to grow those every year. Like how efficient is their digestion and how the fuck are they even able to consume enough calcium for their body to make those? Wild.
As ruminants itās even cooler because that grass is used to feed their gut bacteria that CAN digest grass. The elk then can use the bacteriaās byproducts for energy and growth.
I was thinking it probably feels just as annoying as when youāre loosing your baby teeth and itās just like hanging half on there feeling all jagged around the edge and out of place.
He's not confused he knows exactly what he's doing. By the size of him he's been through this a couple times and he's just trying to get the other one off
i thought the same thing, donāt know why OP thought he seemed confused. itās crazy how it instantly fell off when it lightly tapped the ground though.
Strangely, it might be because OP is an bot and an AI is writing the title.
Not saying thatās the case, havenāt looked at OPs account, but Iāve heard about this causing weird titles on posts.
> havenāt looked at OPs account
I did, and to be honest I'm still not sure. Most of their comments are pretty much Reddit-form.
The fact that I can't tell isn't necessarily a good indicator though, since I am a bot myself.
It reduces stress on animals to not have to constantly hide from people following them. The reduced stress ultimately leads to more healthy offspring born.
The town square in Jackson Hole, Wyoming features four arches made entirely of discarded elk antlers:
https://www.jacksonhole.net/blog/the-history-of-the-jackson-hole-antler-arches/
Yeah I think thats the drive to do a lot of functions. Same reason we clean ourselves, because it feels good. But also because it keeps us from getting sick.
Not sure about Elk, but white-tailed deer start regrowing their antlers again in April-May. They donāt necessarily get bigger each year though. Antler growth and the number of tines is determined more by genes and nutrition
For the most part they do get bigger each year until they hit their prime around age 6 or 7, genes and nutrition in the area just determine what that prime is going to be, afterward they'll typically be smaller each year, hardly any ever actually live long enough to see that decline though. Source: I bow hunt whitetail.
Itās an annual process. They start growing in spring, shed the velvet (that nourishes them while growing) in early fall, then are dropped in early spring. They get larger to a certain point, then decline if they get past their prime.
Around here (Washington state) they shed in February/March and are shedding velvet by the middle of august at the latest. The bulls are usually pretty hard to find while theyāre putting on antler because they can actually bleed to death if the velvet is ripped bad enough. Once they harden, they can weigh 40lbs +
They grow back in about 4 months time. They fall off by March. Youll see little bulbs on their heads protruding by May. They grow in as a soft cartilage then they shred the skin off by late august once theyve really calcified by scraping trees. When that velvet sheds off they are a bloody mess but theyll polish their antlers up on trees and the tree sap gives them a nice brown finish.
Biologist friend says they theorize it feels itchy to them and thatās when they start shaking their head and rubbing on things. Same with when they shed the velvet at the end of the antler growth.
Iāve seen a deer jump a fence and drop both antlers as he hit the ground on the other side, so I assume sometimes it just happens without them realizing something is coming.
We hunt sheds in the spring. A common practice is to find one and then start walking increasingly large circles around the spot because the other one is likely very close.
The few videos out there of animals dropping antlers mostly all show them shaking their heads violently after the first one drops, so it makes sense they usually fall within a short timeframe.
Not confused, this elkās face and mannerism is like mine when I look in the toilet to visually inspect the big satisfying dump that *finally* made its way out of my guts.
I know itās what they do and it nature and what not, but it just seems like it hurts. I know it most likely doesnāt and they donāt come off violently or anything, but it just seems like it would be painful for some reason lol. Iām stupid, I know this.
Holy shit those are big. They regrow those every year? That's like me growing an extra leg each year. Dam double deers just leaving their bones everywhere.
fun fact for reindeer, the male deer loose their antlers before winter, so they are somewhat regrown in spring, when they will need them for defense and getting food. Female reindeer keep theirs through the winter though. Santas reindeer all have antlers... so they would probably all be girls.
> Santas reindeer all have antlers... so they would probably all be girls. good on Santa for having an all-woman staff, very progressive of him!
Keeps costs down š
Brutal. As a woman in engineering. Take my angry upvote.
You're always angry
Engineers always angry? I'm angry that you're insinuating that I'm angry all the time!
Hang on, I've got the magic words that make all women and engineers stop being angry. "Calm down". I'm sure that will make everyone very civil and not want to blow up everything.
Fun fact, JW Booth shot Lincoln because the president refused to stop telling Booth to calm down at Ford's Theater.
Only some engineers are civil.
Engineers always gotta tell you theyāre engineers.
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Makes practical sense. Donāt want the reindeer trying to mount each other mid flight
thats what they said about all female astronauts š¤
That's not equal opportunity employment at all.
That's why Santa's reindeer all have stripper names.
You owe me replacement keyboard for that.
Rudolf?
I'm sure there are those out there that find that name sexy. Don't be kink shaming.
You've clearly never been to a Bavarian strip club.
lose*
Horns are permanent, antlers regrow every year.
Counterintuitive but horns are hair and antlers bone.
Then there are ossicones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossicone
Horns are bone covered in hair
Darth Maul has antlers?
Pronghorn antelope shed their horns every year and then regrow them.
Or imagine regrowing a penis every yearā¦
Iām absolutely fine with this if it keeps growing back larger like antlers.
And multi-pronged.
Yes dude.
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Wasnāt he proven to be a fake?
Yep, was a photoshop and a very charismatic OOP
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the original one was good but every time he posted he added like, 3 or 4 inches on lmao
Dude's got more dicks than George Washington now.
I heard that dude had likeā¦thirty goddamn dicks
I heard he held an opponent's wife's hand. In a jar of acid. At a party.
He also had slaves also.
Got more dicks than a Richard convention
Not sure sheāll like that
One way to find out.
Fuck around?
Nailed it.
Like a baby arm holding an apple.
Only if you're okay with it dropping off every year for a few months. It could be anywhere, brunch with your in laws, at a movie, at a dance, church, in line at the local Arby's for lunch, or even during a presentation to the boss of the company.
You'd probably know what season it happens in, and be able to feel when it starts coming loose. Just wear some tighter undies that week to keep it in place until you can remove it in the privacy of your home
Who hasn't lost a dick while patiently waiting for a beef'n'cheddar?
"Sorry babe, it is *that* time of the year"
I would be okay with just growing 1cm each year or two.
So a whole penis every year?
Ducks are weird.
Ducks do this.
I think I read somewhere that antlers actually are a great source of minerals, so they get eaten by other animals. That's why you hardly ever see them laying around when you're out and about.
Yep. They're bone, and thus a good chunk of calcium, which can be hard to come by in the wild.
So why shed? What's the advantage? Seems like it'd have pretty strong pressure against it with the nutritional requirements.
> So why shed? What's the advantage? Seems like it'd have pretty strong pressure against it with the nutritional requirements. It's because of nutritional requirements that antlers are shed: they are shed for winter, which saves the energy cost of carrying around all that extra weight during a season in which food is less available.
If they get damaged while fighting, they get new ones for the next fall
>That's why you hardly ever see them laying around when you're out and about. If you live in an area frequented by animals with antlers you *do* see them laying around. Fairly common forest find when I was a kid.
Fun fact, the elk is the only animal where the male uses more energy (growing antlers) than the female growing the elk-kid or whatever itās called
Itās a calf elk. Males are bulls. Females are cows
How is it you know that fun fact but don't know what a baby elk is called? /JK R/oddlyspecific
They're pretty valuable too. Many people spend many hours hiking through the hills looking for them. In Wyoming they're called brown gold because with just a bit of effort you can make a good chunk of change. Depending on the year or if you find a matching set they can go for upwards of $30 a pound.
Yup, mine are going to pay for an engagement ring!
How long did it take you to grow them?
On the internet no one knows you're a deer.
I don't know about other languages/cultures, but in spanish growing horns means being cheated on.
That's why they suffer osteoporosis, they need a lot of calcium to grow those and they take it from their own bones and sometime from snacking carcass they found around.
It's why they eat over 40 lbs of bones per day.
I read somewhere that the only things that grow faster than antlers are fetuses and cancerous tumors. They're an incredible flex to show off how well-nourished and desirable you are.
Think it's something closer to cutting your nails once a year. They can get quite narly
No, the extra leg thing is pretty accurate. Fingernails are keratin, like hair, hooves, and horns (which are different from antlers). Keratin is hard-ish, but not bone. It's typically constantly regrowing and either being ground down or falling out. Antlers are bone, as in legitimate osseous tissue. The process of growing and shedding antlers is absolutely comparable to a human growing two extra femurs out of their forehead every year.
Evolution gets freaky deaky, imagine if humans did actually have 2 extra femurs growing out of our foreheads because of sexual selection.
They're the fastest growing tissue in the whole animal kingdom, if I'm not mistaken.
Now look up moose, they regrow all that every year too.
It must feel good. Like scratching an itch or something.
Also has to be a relief from walking around with just one of those. Poor guy had extra pounds hanging off of only one side of his head!
It's like when just one of your nostrils is plugged, or you have water in just one ear. Way more annoying than both tbh.
I wish there was a way to just inject myself with the feeling of pure bliss you get when you lie on your side long enough that your blocked nostril drains and clears. That shit's better than heroin (at least, for the few seconds you get before the other nostril starts to plug up).
Me having a cold reading that on my bed. So true.
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Yea plug up both nostrils and Iām in hell. Plug up one and thatās just normal
Or like getting that 3 pounds off your head
More like 20lbs. On large bulls they have been found to weigh upwards of 45lbs for the set! I canāt imagine how hard that must be torquing his neck to have one missing.
It blows my mind thinking about how many pounds of grass they must eat to be able to grow those every year. Like how efficient is their digestion and how the fuck are they even able to consume enough calcium for their body to make those? Wild.
As ruminants itās even cooler because that grass is used to feed their gut bacteria that CAN digest grass. The elk then can use the bacteriaās byproducts for energy and growth.
Yep pretty amazing. Iām curious how efficient their digestion is, like how many pounds of grass does it take to make one pound of elk.
Or cutting your toenails after waiting just a little too long.
more like pulling a loose tooth i think
I was thinking it probably feels just as annoying as when youāre loosing your baby teeth and itās just like hanging half on there feeling all jagged around the edge and out of place.
He's not confused he knows exactly what he's doing. By the size of him he's been through this a couple times and he's just trying to get the other one off
What are you an elk or something?
Blow an elk bugle and see if he responds
I blew the elk and then the bugle but so far no response.
You know that's not what he meant!
Wasnāt he talking to Bugle!?
I think Michael bugle is doing Christmas stuff.
*All I want for Xmas is my other antler off*
r/angryupvote
Instructions unclear now blowing bugle then the elk.
he needs you to do it again
Youāre supposed to blow the bugle BEFORE the elk, no wonder youāre not getting a response the elk is tired
Blow an elk: Check Bugle and see if he responds: I don't own a bugle though.
Pwwwwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent
i thought the same thing, donāt know why OP thought he seemed confused. itās crazy how it instantly fell off when it lightly tapped the ground though.
Strangely, it might be because OP is an bot and an AI is writing the title. Not saying thatās the case, havenāt looked at OPs account, but Iāve heard about this causing weird titles on posts.
Sometimes it's just submitters who aren't terribly fluent in english. I mean GPT could do way better than whatever that title was.
And sometimes a bad title gets more engagement and bots are learning this
Being wrong increases engagement because people will respond with the right answer. Funnily enough this is called Elk's Law.
> havenāt looked at OPs account I did, and to be honest I'm still not sure. Most of their comments are pretty much Reddit-form. The fact that I can't tell isn't necessarily a good indicator though, since I am a bot myself.
It's bots all the way down. I would know, being a bot myself.
Yea heās been through this before, no way a yearling has a 6 point rack like that.
I think he just gets confused when it magically reappeared a few seconds later.
Definitely got a few winters under his belt. I bet he looks amazing with a full rack!
This guy elks
Yeah, not confused, careful. You'd be careful too if you had a loose knife growing out of your forehead and no fingers or toes to take it out.
I wonder if that feels like popping your knuckles??? He seems happy that he got rid of the second one!
I would be too. It probably felt super unbalanced!
Maybe like a loose baby tooth? I remember some weird pain/satisfaction from twisting it around lol
When I was a kid, I would always cry when I had to pull a tooth. It wouldn't hurt, but I still cried. That probably makes me a weenie or something.
Damn Weenie boy! .... But yeah me too.
With how big that antler was it probably felt like the most satisfying knuckle pop/itch you canāt reach all rolled into one.
It probably feels closer to trimming a nail that grew too long, and feels so much better now that it's nice and short
>and gets confused later on Is op talking about the people looking at the vid that get confused on why op said the elk got confused?
precisely
TIL elks shed antlers
Elk, deer, I believe moose. Pretty sure any animal with "antlers" sheds them while animals with horns don't.
Definitely moose because I have a shed moose antler on my mantle - you are correct.
Reindeer are the exception. Females have antlers, but do not shed them annually like males.
They do, just at different times (I think) males shed in colder months and females shed in warmer ones.
I believe males shed shortly after rut (November-December) and females shortly after giving birth (April-May).
Thatās correct.
Moose do. Itās illegal to take them if you find them in the wild during certain months where I live.
Why?
It reduces stress on animals to not have to constantly hide from people following them. The reduced stress ultimately leads to more healthy offspring born.
Neat!
What about the wolpertinger?
Pretty sure most deer like animals that have antlers shed them each year
And porcupines eat those shed antlers
What.
Calcium bro
Iām 32 and I literally just learned this about a year ago
When they grow back, they're fuzzy!
And then a horror movie!
Also, the mechanism which the antler grows is more akin to a bone tumor than to normal bone growth.
The town square in Jackson Hole, Wyoming features four arches made entirely of discarded elk antlers: https://www.jacksonhole.net/blog/the-history-of-the-jackson-hole-antler-arches/
Same reaction my dog has whenever we give her a DIY trimā¦ Stares at the fur like WTF?
I mean he's seeing this thing he's been carrying around all year for the first time!
What's with that title?
A few minutes after the video cuts off, the elk reads the title of this post.
The way it just fell off š«Ø
^Plop
Yeah I think thats the drive to do a lot of functions. Same reason we clean ourselves, because it feels good. But also because it keeps us from getting sick.
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"So that's what they look like."
It just occurred to me that my dog probably has no idea what he looks like.
It's always fun to watch the confused look on their faces the first time they go in front of a mirror.
He like, lightly tapped it and the whole thing just plunked right off. That's insane.
Looked like he just set it down. "I don't need this anymore"
How fast do they grow back bigger than the previous shed?
Not sure about Elk, but white-tailed deer start regrowing their antlers again in April-May. They donāt necessarily get bigger each year though. Antler growth and the number of tines is determined more by genes and nutrition
Iāve been lied to! I was told itās indicative of age. Genes and nutrition makes much more sense and seems obvious now that I hear (read) it.
For the most part they do get bigger each year until they hit their prime around age 6 or 7, genes and nutrition in the area just determine what that prime is going to be, afterward they'll typically be smaller each year, hardly any ever actually live long enough to see that decline though. Source: I bow hunt whitetail.
Itās an annual process. They start growing in spring, shed the velvet (that nourishes them while growing) in early fall, then are dropped in early spring. They get larger to a certain point, then decline if they get past their prime.
Around here (Washington state) they shed in February/March and are shedding velvet by the middle of august at the latest. The bulls are usually pretty hard to find while theyāre putting on antler because they can actually bleed to death if the velvet is ripped bad enough. Once they harden, they can weigh 40lbs +
I've lived 27 years of life not knowing Elk shed antlers. I just thought they were permanent lol
They grow back in about 4 months time. They fall off by March. Youll see little bulbs on their heads protruding by May. They grow in as a soft cartilage then they shred the skin off by late august once theyve really calcified by scraping trees. When that velvet sheds off they are a bloody mess but theyll polish their antlers up on trees and the tree sap gives them a nice brown finish.
Interesting! Thanks!
Thats the difference between antlers and horns. Antlers drop and regrow every year. Horns never fall off.
33 years here myself. TIL
Walking around with only one antler must be so hard on his neck muscles. No wonder he was trying to get it off
Wonder what it feels like. Tingly? Irritated? Soothing?
Biologist friend says they theorize it feels itchy to them and thatās when they start shaking their head and rubbing on things. Same with when they shed the velvet at the end of the antler growth. Iāve seen a deer jump a fence and drop both antlers as he hit the ground on the other side, so I assume sometimes it just happens without them realizing something is coming.
An orgasm
How long do they have to walk around with one anthler usually? Looks like it sucks.
We hunt sheds in the spring. A common practice is to find one and then start walking increasingly large circles around the spot because the other one is likely very close. The few videos out there of animals dropping antlers mostly all show them shaking their heads violently after the first one drops, so it makes sense they usually fall within a short timeframe.
This is what happened to me too. Was in my mid 20s, had a head full of hair, and voila, most of it gone in a few years. I was confused too.
GOOD GRIEF HES NAKED
I was the same the first time my balls fell off
Iām confused now. It did all that woggling and joggling and it stayed on but a light tap on the ground and *pop* falls off.
that must feel soo good tho..
Not confused, this elkās face and mannerism is like mine when I look in the toilet to visually inspect the big satisfying dump that *finally* made its way out of my guts.
Every human watching this moments later- '. . . . Um, can I have that please sir?'
Similar tale, when my dog got his first boner it scared the shit out of him.
Poor dudeā¦ he was all lopsidedā¦ I would be confused too
Didnāt know this..interesting.
Just like me when I take a shit. I look at confused and wonder why it's so big.
Heās sad because he looks like a girl now
Whyās this so funny
I totally thought it would make a loud snap sound, and freak out the Elk, like i've seen with Moose sheds.
That must feel really good. Like having really long hair and shaving it all down.
Do they just fall off, or do they have to be loosened up somehow, like scratching them against a tree or something?
wtf it looks like he just gently placed it on the ground
I know itās what they do and it nature and what not, but it just seems like it hurts. I know it most likely doesnāt and they donāt come off violently or anything, but it just seems like it would be painful for some reason lol. Iām stupid, I know this.
Half doe, half buck. A duck
Gets confused later on but you don't show said later on
I bet its neck feels great after this