Velvet antler is the whole cartilaginous antler in a precalcified growth stage of the Cervidae family including the species of deer such as elk, moose...

Once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler. In most cases...

success. Some cultures revere the elk as having spiritual significance. Antlers and velvet are used in traditional medicines in parts of Asia. Elk is hunted...

levels drop in the autumn, the velvet is shed and the antlers stop growing. With the approach of autumn, the antlers begin to calcify and the stags'...

carnivores and rodents eat dropped antlers as they are full of protein and moose themselves will eat antler velvet for the nutrients. If a bull moose...

females have antlers. The males grow their antlers from March to August and the females from June to September, and in both cases the velvet is gone by...

their colour changes...When the velvet starts to fall off the antler is red because the antler is made from blood. The antler is the blood that has hardened;...

field dress their cervid harvests, and the urine, saliva, feces, and antler velvet of infected individuals that are deposited in the environment, all have...

Harvesting antler velvet. A bull moose grows a new pair of antlers every summer. Similar to the maral farms in New Zealand and Siberia, moose antlers can be...

the velvet of their antlers. Antler velvet is rich in growth hormone and is used in traditional Chinese medicine. The most valuable antler velvet comes...

Velvet antler, the soft skin that covers a deer's antlers as they develop Velvet (bus company) based in Eastleigh, near Southampton, in England Velvet (dog)...

or for the sport of hunting. Elk have a variety of uses. The velvet antler or, the antler in the premature stages of growth, is believed by some to have...

for velvet antlers. Japan is the only country in eastern Asia where sika deer were not farmed for velvet antlers. Other deer raised for the antler trade...

chinese medicine is made from stag antler, and the antlers of certain species are eaten when "in the velvet". Antlers can also be boiled down to release...

when male deer rub the velvet off their newly acquired antler growth or during rut season. The area between the forehead and antlers contains a large number...

paintings. He uses diverse materials such as plaster, wax, photographs, antlers, velvet and ceramics. His paintings make use of canvas, wood, muslin and even...

de Mille-Gueules) October 17, 2016 (2016-10-17) 14 "Yakari and the Antler Velvet" (French: Tout à l'envers) October 18, 2016 (2016-10-18) 15 "The Puma's...

Agent Beverly Katz (Hettienne Park), who reveals that they have found antler velvet in Elise's wounds. Taking their case back to the examination labs in...

Hayden Silas Anhedönia (born March 24, 1998), known professionally as Ethel Cain, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and model. Inspired...

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emerge as soft tissues (known as velvet antlers) and progressively harden into bony structures (known as hard antlers), following mineralisation and blockage...

Once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler. In most cases...

characteristic light slate-grey antler velvet of Peary caribou as opposed to the dark chocolate brown antler velvet of other barren-ground caribou and...

Mongolian gazelles were hunted for their meat, and red deer, for their antler velvet. Organized hunting of wild sheep was a foreign tourist attraction. Mongolia's...

deer (Rucervus eldii or Panolia eldii), also known as the thamin or brow-antlered deer, is an endangered species of deer endemic to South and Southeast Asia...

and the black market for bear organs, as well as for deer and elk antler velvet, waned considerably. In 1993, Teddi Brown brought attention to the fact...

growing antlers. If the antlers are damaged while they are in velvet they can cause nontypical features due to the soft nature of the antler tissue while...

spikes. Antlers begin to grow in late spring, covered with a highly vascularised tissue known as velvet. Bucks either have a typical or atypical antler arrangement...

the Caspian red deer has been hunted for velvet antlers since the 1930s. Historically, demand for velvet antlers from Asia was met by organized deer farms...

year's antlers in Irish elk bucks were potentially shed in early March, peak antler growth in early June, completion by mid-July, shedding velvet (a layer...