Here is your fun fact for the week.
Caribou (also known as reindeer) are the only species of deer in which the females have antlers as well as the males.
Here is your fun fact for the week.
Caribou (also known as reindeer) are the only species of deer in which the females have antlers as well as the males.
Does anyone know why that is? Is it some sort of archaic living fossil thing? Could it be diet? Maybe because they live in large, mixed-sex herds in open areas...so the genders conform more than woodland, solitary, bachelor or breeding harem species? Or do the females benefit from having Antlers (for a good scratch) during the months when the Caribou are plagued with biting insects? Mysteries of nature..... ;-)
