As we departed, the family's teenage son rode up on a reindeer, its fuzzy rack of antlers almost bigger than he. |
One summer morning a rack of antlers was visible in the distant meadow where the night before a pack of 14 wolves had taken down a bull elk. |
Such skulls, with their enormous racks of antlers, adorn the walls of castles and hunting lodges throughout Ireland. |
Female reindeer retain their antlers until after they give birth in the spring. |
Solid horns, called antlers, distinguish most species in the deer family from the other hoofed mammals. |
From several metres, the youths take turns lassoing the antlers with rope, like cowboys rustling cattle. |