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Doe with an antler

Houston resident, Simon Jeffery, while working on his travel trailer at the Silverthorne Trailer Park when he spotted this doe with an antler and snapped a photo of it on June 6. This is a very rare sight, normally doe deer do not grow antlers. An article by Geroge Wislocki published by the American Society of Mammalogists said, “Antlered does usually bear small, poorly developed irregular “freak” antlers which can remain in the most part permanently in the velvet without being shed.
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Houston resident, Simon Jeffery, while working on his travel trailer at the Silverthorne Trailer Park when he spotted this doe with an antler and snapped a photo of it on June 6. This is a very rare sight, normally doe deer do not grow antlers. An article by Geroge Wislocki published by the American Society of Mammalogists said, “Antlered does usually bear small, poorly developed irregular “freak” antlers which can remain in the most part permanently in the velvet without being shed.” According to Wislocki, an antlered doe usually has an abnormal reproductive tract, some being true hermaphrodites.