Fallow deer Dama dama stags
by Alon Meir
Title
Fallow deer Dama dama stags
Artist
Alon Meir
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Fallow deer (Dama dama) stags. These stags still have the vascular layer of velvet covering their antlers. This layer supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone. Once the antlers are fully grown, the velvet is shed and the antlers' bone dies. Photographed in Israel.
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March 9th, 2012
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