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In deer, the males of nearly every species carry antlers. These are bones that drop off and regrow each year. The family lives on every continent except Antarctica and Australia. Its range runs from temperate forests to the Arctic tundra. Many fawns are born with white spots.
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Cervidae
Cervus canadensis · Least concern
The name wapiti comes from a Shawnee and Cree word meaning 'white rump', after the pale fur the animal fluffs up when agitated. 'Elk' first meant the European moose, but colonists in North America gave the word to this deer, the second largest species of the deer family.
Photo: Membeth (CC0)
Cervidae
Axis axis · Least concern
The chital, or spotted deer, wears a golden to rufous coat completely covered in white spots. Only males grow antlers, three-pronged, which start as soft velvet and harden into bone from the tip to the base. Mature stags can weigh up to 98 to 110 kg.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cervidae
Dama dama · Least concern
Only fallow bucks carry antlers: a single spike in their first two years, then broad, shovel-shaped palmate antlers from three years. Native to Turkey and perhaps Italy and the Balkans, the fallow deer has been brought back by humans across Europe, where it lived during the Pleistocene.
Photo: Johann-Nikolaus Andreae (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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