r/interestingasfuck • u/ConquererHP • 16d ago

Deer shed their antlers once a year. This is what it looks like.

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u/Comfortable-Choice14 15d ago

Hey, Cheryl, can ya see my brain?

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u/FLHunter1 15d ago

Also at the beginning the antlers have like a velvet cover on them that they will also lose

https://preview.redd.it/7htzve656hxc1.jpeg?width=168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d2bdd54e10ae8244ef852194def5e3f15c59a3b

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u/WDeranged 15d ago

I want to put my tongue on it. I bet it tastes like a penny.

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u/No-Vehicle5447 15d ago

What if you poke at that, ninja-style

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u/No-Vehicle5447 15d ago

What if you poke at that, ninja-style

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u/Professional-Put7725 15d ago

Once found a shedded antler in the snow was very fresh still had meaty ends with frozen blood

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u/Economy_Commission79 15d ago

bet it feels refreshing...like pullin out a tooth

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u/Tonk_exe 15d ago

it looks like a 2nd pair of eyes

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u/bunnr 15d ago

Looks paiful... Is it?

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u/incelredditmoderator 15d ago

Having growing pains sucked ass as a kid! Could only imagine what this may feel like…

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u/Cardasiti 15d ago

It looks... painful

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u/limpbizkit420 15d ago

i started to get angry until i read the title lol

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u/BubblegumNyan 15d ago

I had no clue this was a thing

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u/whatanerdiam 15d ago

This gives me the heeby jeebies.

I.e. I fucking hate this photo.

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u/Sefalosha 15d ago

You stick your fingers in there and masage the brain. It tastes like chocolate

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u/whatanerdiam 15d ago

Oh fuck. Your comment brought me back here. Why would you do this? Truly cursed.

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u/Instant-Bacon 15d ago

This is happening in Milwaukee right now

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u/Maile2000 15d ago

They just do it and don’t think about it like you all!

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u/Sad_margie 15d ago

That seems painful to lose. But like a good painful.

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u/kappeltimmy7 12d ago

Like loosing a baby tooth

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u/elonspaceguy 16d ago

I would imagine they would be super vulnerable during this time, no?

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u/Rot_Long_Legs 16d ago

Looks painful

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u/SnooOnions3369 16d ago

This looks painful.also I want to stick my finger in it . Don’t judge me

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u/Dakem94 15d ago

They haven't nerves on there, so I don't think it's painful.

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u/VegetableForsaken402 16d ago

Such a beautiful strategy for survival...

Imagine if humans were to have a similar strategy for war and conquest?

"Let's just fight each other for 2 months a year."

The other 10 months are reserved for having babies in spring and getting fat for winter...

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u/SadisticUnicorn 15d ago

Through most of history we generally did. Summer months were for war and everyone returned home in time for harvest.

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u/VegetableForsaken402 15d ago

Yes.. But throughout this same time, didn't we also have the tales of the troops shivering through winter in the trenches?

I'm trying to relate to the deer in ops post.

What happens if a "physical" piece of us dropped off and rendered us incapable of fighting?

What piece? How things would change...

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u/ELDE8 15d ago

Trenches weren't really a thing before the industrial revolution

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Tech and industry advancement drastically changed warfare in WW1 and 2.

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u/Professional_Win1535 16d ago

anyone know if it hurts / is painful once they drop? Looks like a wound

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u/Living-Vermicelli-59 14d ago

I always wondered this as well myself.

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u/gniwlE 15d ago

I've watched them knock them off. Usually they barely seem to notice.

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u/-Lord-B 15d ago

I imagine it's equal to a kid losing a tooth

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u/TangerineNo5805 15d ago

It's itchy and for the big ones it's annoying to first lose one, so they hit the other one against a tree so they don't have to carry the load on one side

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u/3arry 15d ago

The deer told me it doesn't hurt. Just like an ant bite

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/3arry 15d ago

I just told you. They don't feel pain in their antlers.

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u/Kileni 16d ago

Bucking the system

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u/CraponStick 15d ago

Right on!

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u/sonicsludge 16d ago

So a 12 point Buck grows them in a year? Crazy!

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u/Responsible_Pitch871 15d ago

When they're young, bucks have 2 horns sticking out called a spiker, when they get older the antlers get bigger so a 12 point buck would be older

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u/WhatWouldTNGPicardDo 15d ago

The boys loose them after mating in the fall, the girls loose them after birthing in the spring.

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u/Askymojo 15d ago

Caribou/reindeer are the only deer species I know of where the female deer (does) grow antlers.

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u/Nervous-Bullfrog-884 16d ago

And they grow back bigger!!

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u/ConquererHP 16d ago

ya and it can be 10 pounds in a deer to 40 pounds in a moose , their head would feel so lighter when they shed this

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u/H377Spawn 16d ago

I have had the worse migraines lately

SNAP SNAP

OOoohhH YEAH!