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Antler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia a.new,#quickbar a.new{color:#ba0000} /* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:5:f2a9127573a22335c2a9102b208c73e7 */ Antler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Antlers) Jump to: , This article is about the antlers of deer and related species. For other uses, see Antler (disambiguation). Velvet covers a growing antler and provides it with blood, supplying oxygen and nutrients. Antlers are the usually large, branching bony appendages on the heads of most deer species.

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Etymology

Antler originally meant the lowest tine, the "brow tine". It comes from the possibly from some form of an unattested Latin word *anteocularis, "before the eye" (and applied to the word for "branch" or "horn").

Occurrence and function

Antlers are unique to cervids and found mostly on males: only Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to t... mehr

Antlers aus Wikipedia. Zum Beitrag