Deer Evolution

[dbHunterNY]

Most don't think about it until something like this shows up....

 

https://www.qdma.com/articles/deer-with-upper-canines

 

local buck around here.

 

[grampy]

Pretty cool. I've never seen anything like that myself.

[growalot]

Throw backs...probably similar to the throw backs in humans...extremely rare "Genetic Memory" popping up. I'm sure it probably happens in most species:

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263034/

[peepsight]

Thanks for sharing. The article on that site concerning deer whiskers is also interesting.

[RoadKill44]

Cool. I've never looked for K9s. In fact, I seldom looked at the teeth mainly because I was never interested in aging deer. This has peeked my interest so I guess it's time to start paying attention. 

Edited January 25, 2016 by RoadKill44

[RoadKill44]

 In 1998 I harvested and nice 10 point. One thing that stood out was the this buck had a mane. While I've seen a few other mounts with manes (maybe 1 in 20), I haven't seen any as prominent. It sometimes shows as a mound of darker hair.

 

Here's a close up. Almost like a brush along the back of the neck.

 

A step back for size perspective.

 

Is this uncommon? Has anyone else seen deer like this?

[The_Real_TCIII]

Have you got a field pic of him?

[dbHunterNY]

 In 1998 I harvested and nice 10 point. One thing that stood out was the this buck had a mane. While I've seen a few other mounts with manes (maybe 1 in 20), I haven't seen any as prominent. It sometimes shows as a mound of darker hair.

 

Here's a close up. Almost like a brush along the back of the neck.

The Mane 1.JPG

 

A step back for size perspective.

The Mane 2.JPG

 

Is this uncommon? Has anyone else seen deer like this?

 

not common but we've also heard of that.  I've never seen one in person.

 

https://www.qdma.com/articles/weird-whitetail-buck-had-a-mane

[RoadKill44]

 This deer was taken a couple years before I had a digital camera. If your talking live "on the hoof" shots, then "no" to that as well. I took a lot of film snap shots when we gathered to skin him and a couple others. I took quite a few of him at that time but we probably focused on the rack. I'll have to hunt those old photos up to see if I have any showing the mane.

 

If your thinking it might be a Jackalope type enhancement it's not. I have seen a few others. Just not that pronounced.

[RoadKill44]

I managed to find two of the old photographs that best shows the mane prior to being caped out.

One is the only close-up and the second is as it hung shortly after taken. There were several pictures taken but nearly all others were positioned (frontal head shots) to show the rack. 

Edited February 3, 2016 by RoadKill44

[dbHunterNY]

yours is definitely the most pronounced I've seen with it being so tall.  cool you found old pictures.

[grampy]

Very pronounced mane and a very nice buck!!!  I have seen them with a dark strip of hair along the back of the neck. But never one like yours! Really cool trophy!

[wooly]

I posted my fanged buck find from this season here in the taxidermy forum for anyone that might have missed it.

I never expected to find one locally.

Full story here.

 

http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/31503-fanged-buck/