Talk:Antler

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Purpose of antlers[edit]

http://www.livescience.com/animals/ap_050319_deer_antlers.html mentions the latest views on the purpose of antlers, etc. Jidanni 23:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added it as an External Link. Feel free to incorporate the info into the text of the article, using it as your citation. Softlavender (talk) 00:34, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

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The result was merge into ANTLER. -- Anaxial(talk 22:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to me that advancer is never likely to be any larger than it is now. Are there any objections to merging it into this article? Anaxial (talk) 22:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Tidy and merge Shed hunting[edit]

See Talk:Shed hunting for reasons for merge.

Removed refimprove banner, as no major citation issues. If you have a problem with a statement, suggest tagging the statement itself with {{fact}}, Template:fact.

I didn't wait to ask for consensus on this merge as it seems such an obvious and not particularly contentious one, escept perhaps to the creator of the merged article who hasn't been back for years.

Best, Trev M ~ 13:05, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Advancers etc[edit]

As far as I can see, the term advancer, and several of the others, have been basically obsolete since before 1800. Does anyone have any information that is not simply lifted from 18th and 19th century dictionaries? Myopic Bookworm (talk) 13:47, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fruit flies with antlers[edit]

Why no mention of Phytalmia mouldsi?--Jeff79 (talk) 10:37, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Number of Points[edit]

Suggestion: Add some information on the number of points on a deer's antler--like, do they increase by one or two each year? Does an entire enlarged rack grow anew each year? — Preceding unsigned comment added by EDC105 (talk • contribs) 12:45, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Reindeer not caribou[edit]

All subtypes of Reindeer females have horns (Antler) not only caribou. This text about Antler should refer to Reindeer not caribou.--Zzalpha (talk) 05:36, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Antler anatomy[edit]

If there are no objections I will be adding an illustration showing the different parts of an antler (e.g., main beam, tines, palm, pedicle, coronet, pearling, etc.) Down time (talk) 22:38, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Antlers For Hearing[edit]

It may be beneficial to add onto this, as if antlers are used for hearing does this mean some female deer species have worse hearing than males, and what happens to those deer that loose their antlers? ElizaWoods (talk) 04:05, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vague pronoun reference[edit]

"They're usually grown in symmetrical pairs." has an ambiguous antecedent. Is it referring to horns or antlers? 158.222.198.125 (talk) 07:25, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Advancer" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Advancer and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 June 8#Advancer until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. BD2412 T 22:07, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]