Found on a walk through my woods with my dog. Think it’s a fawn.
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Found on a walk through my woods with my dog. Think it’s a fawn.
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Notes of a Neophyte
February 2nd, 2020 at 8:37PM
Do fawns have antlers?
Maybe it’s a faun.
February 2nd, 2020 at 9:06PM
I’m basing it on photos like this.
February 3rd, 2020 at 8:40AM
Probably a young’un, about 1-2 years old. The dog did not want to chew the antler tips?
February 3rd, 2020 at 1:53PM
tp: I picked it up before she noticed it, but now that it’s on the deck railing, she’s sniffing around it like mad.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:12AM
Antler chews were such a source of conflict within Mrs. TP’s pack that they had to be outlawed in our house.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:40AM
tp: They have a remarkably persistent smell. The part of the antlers that still has flesh on it continues to smell, though I’ve washed it pretty thoroughly and though it remains outside. I’ve had to move it to a container up the hill a bit.
February 4th, 2020 at 8:21PM
I’d say it’s a yearling (second year) whitetail deer, Odocoileus virginianus, male, whose antlers were just developing when he died. The teeth would probably establish the age more precisely, since they are probably still erupting at that age.
The deer skull in your picture in the comments is of a European roe deer, Capreolus capreolus, which if you’d found one in your woods should be reported to the Smithsonian.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:05PM
Polish Peter: Wow. Many thanks for the identification. I’m just pleased to find that my general impression of a young deer was correct. (For one mad moment I thought it looked more like a cow or a goat or something.)
Naturally I fantasize, while walking in what is clearly a deer graveyard (the deerly departed), that I will trip over something I should metro over to the Smithsonian… unprecedentedthingii soltanii …
January 21st, 2021 at 9:51AM
[…] of the work of her hands (clearing a path through the woods), UD discovered, this time last year, a deer skull. She washed it a bit and placed it in a large white outdoor plant container. Now and then she […]