Tuesday, January 13, 2015

We're Here, We're Deer, Get Used to It


Oh, Deer: It’s an Antlered Doe 

Thinking They Bagged a Buck, a Few Hunters This Season Were In for a Rare Surprise 

WSJ reports:
This deer is sexually ambiguous. Biologically female, it is typically able to conceive, bear and nurse fawns. But this doe typically manufactures above-average levels of testosterone, giving it a masculinity expressed through the sprouting of antlers, that crown of bone that bucks—that is, male deer—grow each year ahead of mating season.
Read HERE.

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