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THOUGH, no doubt, as Mr. Stokoe suggests, many antlers are picked up and sold to knife-handle makers, or, if they happen to be good ones, used for “making up” deers' heads, yet many, I believe, are really eaten by the deer themselves. I have never myself seen a deer engaged in eating a fallen antler, nor, though I have more than once found cast horns on the hills, did the latter present any appearance of having been gnawed.
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WHITE, F. Stags' Horns. Nature 21, 251 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021251d0
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