OurAmazingPlanet
Staff
Date:
01 February 2013 Time: 03:23 PM ET
Each
year after the breeding season ends, male reindeer shed their impressive,
branching antlers that they grow. Lenni, the six-year-old European forest
reindeer at Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park, shed quite a set of antlers this
year.
Lenni's
antlers weighed in at a combined 23 pounds (10.5 kilograms), about the same as
a 1-year-old child, the park noted in a release. Each antler was 37 inches (94
centimeters) tall and 31.5 inches (80 cm) wide.
"The
shed antlers are quite striking and are the largest ones from the three males
in the Park this year," said Douglas Richardson, the park's animal
collection manager.
Trainee
hoofstock keeper Marc Enderby holds up the antlers shed by male reindeer Lenni
at Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park.
CREDIT: Edinburgh Zoo
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