The Adversary

This is an unusually large bodied Deer with that should have had a very wide rack. There are just too many potentially confounding and overlapping circumstances in the wild for biologists to nail down a specific cause for antler abnormalities based only on a description or photo. It is known that most abnormalities are caused by injuries such as damage to a buck’s pedicle, damage to the antler during the velvet stage, or even an injury to a buck’s leg. Damage to the antler pedicle or skull’s frontal bone is the most common cause of antler malformation.