I’ve been hunting in the woods lately, but without a firearm or a bow. Vernal pools are boiling with mating wood frogs. Honking geese fill the skies. Trees have not yet begun to bud so the sun is warm ...

If you’ve ever observed deer or seen images of mature bucks, you may have noticed that older deer tend to have larger and more complex antlers. You might have also heard that deer shed their antlers ...

Antlers on deer grow new each year and there are a variety of reasons why they may have a unique shape, drop tine or hole. “Antlers are pretty awesome,” Jeannine Fleegle, wildlife biologist for the ...

Dennis Hawk’s school of finding shed white-tailed deer antlers is not for the faint of heart. No. 1, there’s the mileage: The Palmerton area man estimates he’s put in 150 miles over the past few ...

“I recently discovered damage to the bark on my dawn redwood. Could this be caused by deer? What can I do to prevent more damage?” The peeling bark on your dawn redwood was probably caused by ...

Lust or greed, many a trespasser is drawn to farmland by deer sheds. In late winter or early spring, when antlers drop, the lure of shed treasure is a powerful pull to the public, despite purple paint ...

April 9 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in England rescued two deer that ended up with their antlers entangled in a rope attached to a tree. Lindsay Newell, of the Linjoy Wildlife Sanctuary and Rescue, said ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Every year, wildlife — deer, elk, pronghorn and moose — naturally shed their antlers in the fall and winter, then grow a new set in spring and summer. For ...

Antlers, the headgear of deer, moose and elk, are more useful for display than combat. But that does not stop deadly lockups from occurring. By Asher Elbein As the days of summer pass, the antlers get ...

Antler size is an indicator of a buck's health, nutrition, and age, not necessarily dominance. Injuries to a deer can result in abnormally shaped antlers, such as drop tines or even a third antler.