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For anyone curious deer have a velvety layer on their antlers that allows the antlers to grow. This layer eventually falls/is rubbed off of the antlers leaving the bone exposed. That’s what’s happening here.
Not only deer, but all antlery animals (moose, reindeer, elk, etc). It’s completely normal and pain free, but it looks like something out of a horror movie.
For some reason, this does not happen to animals with horns, such as cows.
Unlike horns, which like finger nails grow from the base, antlers are basically bones.
normal and pain free
Well, it is quite bloody, which suggests that the tissue is very much alive. Do they have no pain receptors there or did the brain “learn” to ignore them?
