![]() My son and I each harvested one Gregg County buck last year and they were really nice bucks, even comparing well to Sterling County. I don't have any problem finding good bucks to harvest in Gregg County. Jack Ashby is the Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology.I hunt Sterling, Baylor, and Gregg (East Texas)counties. They are also referred to as American antelope, but they aren’t antelope (because they shed their horns) and belong to a family all of their own. ****Exception: pronghorns’ horns grow from the end if a pedicle and are shed. ***Exception: female reindeer also have antlers (but not horns) ** Exception: prongorn horns are branched (hence the prong), but pronghorns are not deer. ![]() I could end there with the hope that some zoologists’ lives have been saved, but the keen can read on about the horns of ten non-mammals with horns…ġ) Horned frogs have protuberances of the skull, made of bone and covered in skin.Ģ) Horny toad is another name for the horned lizardģ) Horned lizards have bovid-like horns, in that the horns have bony cores covered in keratin (scales).Ĥ) Horned viper just have enlarged scales.ĥ) Rhinoceros beetles have a massive outgrowth of their carapace.Ħ) Stag beetles have massive mouthparts which look like antlers (not horns).ħ) Hornbills have a huge casque made of bone (and covered in skin)Ĩ) Two horned cow fish have bones covered in skinĩ) Triceratops (and other horny dinos) have bones covered in keratin, like a cow.ġ0) Narwhals***** have a massive incisor. These are bony protuberances, much like a deer’s pedicle (but unlike antlers or horns), but they remain covered in skin and fur. This will also rile the pedantic zoologist. Occasionally a person may refer to the things growing out of a giraffe’s head as “horns”. The ill-informed think it cures all manner of ills, but all such beliefs do is drive some of the largest living mammals to extinction, make scumbags rich and potentially poison the ignorant. Unless you have horns, keratin has no medicinal or magical powers. Rhino horn does not have a bony core – it’s just solid keratin growing from the skin. The other famously horny mammals are the rhinos. Depending on the species, both boys and girls can have them, though often the girls’ horns are smaller. Horns are not shed and tend to grow throughout an animal’s life****. Keratin is a protein which is used to build fingernails, claws, hair, beaks, mammal horn, bird and reptile scales and whale baleen. ![]() As such, bovid horns are part of the skeleton AND part of the skin. This can cause some confusion as “horn” can be used to describe the whole pointy thing, and the sheath of keratin that is on the outside of it. Their horns have a bony centre which is then covered in something us zoologists technically describe as horn. Essentially, if it isn’t on a deer, it’s a horn (and remember, if it is on a deer, it’s an antler).īovids are the main horny mammals – sheep, cattle and antelope. This is a lot more complicated as loads of animals have horns (see below) – it’s a term used to describe many pointy things on animals heads (excluding noses and antlers) but most of the confusion is with the mammals. Horn has a horny sheeth and a bony centre
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