{"id":32422,"date":"2023-04-09T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32422"},"modified":"2023-04-09T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:58:47","slug":"antler-buds-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32422","title":{"rendered":"Antler buds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deer grow their antlers anew each year. And although it is variable, the new antler buds usually appear in April. Yesterday, I saw two white-tailed deer, each with antler buds. After a winter with no sightings of this deer, it was a pleasure to see them. But, there was a variant that makes the observation more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>About two years ago, I wrote a posting, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29977\">antler rhythm<\/a>, in which I showed many pictures of the grow of the antlers of the white tailed. Since that time, I have only managed one addition of joisting that would be worth adding to that posting: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31336\">pre-rut sparring<\/a> (4th picture). Maybe yesterday I added another.<\/p>\n<p>There were two males, but only when I examined the pictures did I realize this and that they both had antler buds. One can be seen in front of the right ear on this deer.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32424\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/whitetaileddeer230408bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This male is not only more obvious with its one antler bud and its one broken antler, but it also presents a problem that might be worthy of my two-year-old summary: What will happen next? Does he grow only one antler and retain the broken one, or will he shed the broken one and grow two?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32423\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/whitetaileddeer230408as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Deer grow their antlers anew each year. And although it is variable, the new antler buds usually appear in April. Yesterday, I saw two white-tailed deer, each with antler buds. After a winter with no sightings of this deer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32430,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422\/revisions\/32430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}