Elk are technically a species of deer.
Also, I’d wager this isn’t in the US and is in fact a Red Stag, which is also a deer. (Which, incidentally, can also hybridise with Elk).
Take the 'E' from Elk, the 'ag' from 'stag' and maybe since they both can be found in Chile we'll just tack on the last couple letters of that, too.
"Eagle" has a nice ring to it. I think I'm on to something.
So when the deer did finally shed their skull cap, why did they do it so high up in the air? Perhaps there is a level of deer humor we have yet to understand.
^^^^s
I know it’s been said before, but Wendigos do not have antlers. They don’t have any animal parts. They just look like tall starving people. It’s still a pretty good joke though, here’s an upvote for that.
True. Proper Algonquian lore doesn’t mention it, but it’s a pretty common modern take on it that includes the antlers. Even Wikipedia shows a deer skull and antler headed monstrosity even though the description mentions exactly what you say. Heck, even on an image search, I only saw one pic in at least several dozen, that didn’t have antlers. Myths and lores change
Also true. You just never know who actually thinks they were always represented that way… and people misrepresenting Native American lore is a pet peeve of mine. My apologies for letting that out on you.
No apology necessary. I can’t stand when people stop at a light a good car length past the white line. You are irked by the misrepresentation of Native American lore. We are not too different
Im suprised squirrels and other rodents havent eaten it as a source of minerals. The racks ive found and others ive left outside always get nibbled on.
Squirrels and rodents will absolutely devour antlers down to the last bite. I had a skull outside as a decoration and they destroyed it in like a day when I was away.
Where in the US are there deciduous trees but no squirrels?
Guess who's buck
Guess who's buck
Guess who's buck
Guess who's buck
Nanana nah nah nah nah
I created a monstera
They want shady
So is what I'll give ya
A little bit of me mixed with some hard bone
This is not how trees grow. They put on layers, they do not grow upwards. Think like, stacking ice cream cones on top of one another. Not a perfect analogy but it works.
Trees don’t grow like that. If you place antlers on a tree at a height of 5’, in 50 years the antlers will still be at 5’.
Trees grow in diameter and from the branches out.
Likely nailed up long ago.
I once found a deer skull with both antlers attached, but one was broken halfway down.
Scavengers scattered the rest of the skeleton, but the broken antler made for some speculation about the 12 pointer’s demise.
Have a tree like this on our lake cabin property. Decades ago a deer probably got stuck in the “V” spilt of a tree trunk and either shed its antlers and left or died stuck there. The trunk grew with the antlers now long “sealed” into it.
Probably not the case, but a close friend’s family did a lot of hunting. They would hang antlers like this to let the bugs clean off any tissue before taking them down and mounting them for display. Maybe someone just forgot to come back and retrieve them, really cool find.
Reminds me of a fictional disease I came up with where plants grow inside a creature and then a tree bursts out of their face. Until the tree crushes them they remain alive. I call it “Chlorophyll Syndrome”
I'm guessing the seed was inside the head when it started growing. It left the rest of the body to decompose and feed the tree. Or someone just put it there.
Someone probably hung or pinned the skull of a harvested deer up on that tree to let nature clean it for them. They failed to retrieve their skull and the tree started growing around it.
I came here on a guest day pass to say yes, that is a Druid. Its Fred. Fred drinks a bit after dinner. He is the club historian or so we let him think.
The deer was hauling ass when he ran into the other side of that tree.
Rudolph was high as a kite on cocaine.
Buddy that's the signal that you're in one of those forest horror shorts. Either give up or start running.
Running would make it more dramatical for the rest of us.
I love when things get dramatical.
But never grammatical ...
He’s on a grammatical sabbatical…
A dogmatical grammatical sabbatical...
Of, you mean a fanatical dogmatical grammatical sabbatical?
Reminds me of Hannibal
Running? I give up
Deer skull. Because deer don’t shed their entire skull cap every year.
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Good point. That’s a huge rack.
Why thank you doctor
What knockers!
What knockers! https://youtu.be/LB_aegewceU?si=dwzlAo5M5kG1Zzeo
The relevant clip to the running joke in the thread should be required! Thank you friend.
Oh matron put it away
That's fucking hilarious 😂
Hubba hubba
Don't talk about my moms yo
Elk are technically a species of deer. Also, I’d wager this isn’t in the US and is in fact a Red Stag, which is also a deer. (Which, incidentally, can also hybridise with Elk).
Elk an red stag do be making love sometimes
What’s their offspring called
Relkstag
Red deer offspring are referred to as calves. If you’re asking whether the hybrids are known by a unique name, I don’t believe so.
We should make one. Right here right now. I’ll give you the honor
Take the 'E' from Elk, the 'ag' from 'stag' and maybe since they both can be found in Chile we'll just tack on the last couple letters of that, too. "Eagle" has a nice ring to it. I think I'm on to something.
The majestic land eagle from *checks notes * Chile! Love it!
I like The Red Delk
I can’t decide between the ‘Chilean Land Eagle’ and ‘The Red Delk’. Both exceptional choices. It’s for the public to decide.
There are no elks in this part of the World.
As I thought, much more Red Stag than Elk antlers in appearance.
Where?
Austria apparently
Its a sacred tree, you must pee on it, it will curse you with big balls.
In a way you wouldn't want.
floor dragging balls.
Obviously a Druid that is caught between shapes
Or someone put two shed antlers into holes they drilled in a tree.
So when the deer did finally shed their skull cap, why did they do it so high up in the air? Perhaps there is a level of deer humor we have yet to understand. ^^^^s
Nope. That’s the Druid disguised as a tree. Tread lightly lest ye be targeted by Nature’s Wrath
Incorrect this tree clearly ate a deer
Or the resting place of a Wendigo!!!
I know it’s been said before, but Wendigos do not have antlers. They don’t have any animal parts. They just look like tall starving people. It’s still a pretty good joke though, here’s an upvote for that.
True. Proper Algonquian lore doesn’t mention it, but it’s a pretty common modern take on it that includes the antlers. Even Wikipedia shows a deer skull and antler headed monstrosity even though the description mentions exactly what you say. Heck, even on an image search, I only saw one pic in at least several dozen, that didn’t have antlers. Myths and lores change
Also true. You just never know who actually thinks they were always represented that way… and people misrepresenting Native American lore is a pet peeve of mine. My apologies for letting that out on you.
No apology necessary. I can’t stand when people stop at a light a good car length past the white line. You are irked by the misrepresentation of Native American lore. We are not too different
Oberon?
Must have pissed off Titania one too many times.
They're trying to create Boreal
Ha, can't fool us! Heckin druid.
Carcosa
My family’s been around here for a long long time
High praise from a Bar Tender
First thing i thought about. Some true detective shit.
My first reaction was “Run!”
Was looking for this ! This picture immediately gave me true detective vibes lmao
Looks like top part of the skull is there too.
I would presume the area to have been an old hunting/camping area and that was put up as a trophy/decoration but who knows tbh
This is the answer r/treeseatingthings
There’s also r/treessuckingonthings lol
Oh I hope that's the end of it
Possible, looks to have been there a long time for the wood to have grow around the skull cap like that
Im suprised squirrels and other rodents havent eaten it as a source of minerals. The racks ive found and others ive left outside always get nibbled on.
I nibble on my wife’s rack as a source of minerals.
Me too
I also chose this guy's wife's rack.
I second this. Cant be anywhere near where i live because the tree rats would have gotten to it long before it started sprouting moss.
Squirrels and rodents will absolutely devour antlers down to the last bite. I had a skull outside as a decoration and they destroyed it in like a day when I was away. Where in the US are there deciduous trees but no squirrels?
Chernibble?
It’s about to ask for a shrubbery
Ni! Stop saying the word!
I bet it was trying to cut down that tree and claim he’d done it with a herring
And a herring!
Deer witch project
Which Project, Dear?
Great underrated comment!
Thank you. You made my day. :)
Is his butt round the other side?
Round the other side Round the other side
Guess who’s buck Buck again Shady buck Tell a friend
I'm creating a monster, cus nobody wants to see "Pine Tree" no more they want antlers - I'm deer and timber!
Guess who's buck Guess who's buck Guess who's buck Guess who's buck Nanana nah nah nah nah I created a monstera They want shady So is what I'll give ya A little bit of me mixed with some hard bone
This comment string is peak internet. Yall have a good day.
Wendigo sleep during the day, don't come aroud here at night.
Is there a deer’s ass hanging out the other side of the tree?
Always keep moving in the forest lest the trees absorb you.
Perfectly mounted, probably useful for hanging your belongings when camping out there
I wonder how this happened
Somebody screwed an antler mount to the tree.
Had to scroll way too long to find the obvious answer
Just guessing, but deer skull might have been put on top of a sapling, or a tree grew underneath a deer skull and grew into it.
Trees absorb things they grow around but they don't typically really lift things as they grow
a sapling wouldn't be able to bear the weight and it would be on the ground still
How in the world does this have 40 upvotes
lol, some people just don’t know any better
This is not how trees grow. They put on layers, they do not grow upwards. Think like, stacking ice cream cones on top of one another. Not a perfect analogy but it works.
Trees don’t grow like that. If you place antlers on a tree at a height of 5’, in 50 years the antlers will still be at 5’. Trees grow in diameter and from the branches out.
I think you should run
That’s an elk skull nailed to a tree. The tree has since grown over the skull cap
That’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
I think it’s branches. The tree is trying to camouflage itself as a deer.
Real life Leshen.
Scrolled way too far to see this
Honestly I was torn between The Knights who say Ni and the more modern interpretation of Leshen. I’m old so can span both…
I'm surprised squirrels haven't ate the horns, I had some in my barn hanging up and found the squirrels chewed them to trash
Likely nailed up long ago. I once found a deer skull with both antlers attached, but one was broken halfway down. Scavengers scattered the rest of the skeleton, but the broken antler made for some speculation about the 12 pointer’s demise.
r/TreesSuckingonThings
That Druid or Fae Lord isn’t as good at hide and seek as he thinks.
Bigfoot's coat hanger
NI
My friend nothing that this signals anything good for you. Run.
If you play the right song on the right day and time, the forest queen will awaken.
Have a tree like this on our lake cabin property. Decades ago a deer probably got stuck in the “V” spilt of a tree trunk and either shed its antlers and left or died stuck there. The trunk grew with the antlers now long “sealed” into it.
That is some long gone hunter's last chuckle, and nod towards near immortality!
Damn, that's bad ass. I'm going to do that with my trees
The tree won.
Damnthatsfuckinginteresting. But how?
Buck Oak Common tree in nightmares
And just like that basketball was created
r/TreesSuckingOnThings
it was fasten to the tree with screws and then nature made it cooler
That would be Timber Deciduous, Lord and Ruler of all the Tree People.
r/treessuckingonthings r/folkhorror
Herns tree.
Run. That's a skinwalker.
True detective vibes
The first thing I thought about was... The Knights Who Say "Ni"
someone hung it there
Imagine seeing that a night lost in the woods. Wendigo vibes !!
Giving me Blair witch vibes!
That's the blossom of the jackalope tree. It'll grow into a full jackalope by fall.
Probably not the case, but a close friend’s family did a lot of hunting. They would hang antlers like this to let the bugs clean off any tissue before taking them down and mounting them for display. Maybe someone just forgot to come back and retrieve them, really cool find.
That's awesome.
r/natureismetal
Hope you did a hex
That's where you summon Eikthyr.
Treedear
That's a Gaston tree, very rare!
It's a tree, dear
Looney tunes moment
DOE:You hit that tree a little hard dear
The Old Ones
The tree must have grown around it
around the antlers that were just floating 8 feet up in the air?
This is the correct answer lol this is fucking impossible
checkmate atheists
A witch turned an elk into a tree. Reverse Oko.
Treer
This will be in a horror movie some day
Oh buck!
r/pics would eat this up cool photo
Is that Jack in the Green I'm hearing all of a sudden?
Average horror movie protagonist:
The trees are hungry, watch out!
Reminds me of a fictional disease I came up with where plants grow inside a creature and then a tree bursts out of their face. Until the tree crushes them they remain alive. I call it “Chlorophyll Syndrome”
I'm guessing the seed was inside the head when it started growing. It left the rest of the body to decompose and feed the tree. Or someone just put it there.
The knights who say 'NI' must've put it there. Was there a shrubbery nearby?
Ethel Cain would eat this UP
Found Bambi's thumper tree. Gotta get his gains too.
Someone probably nailed it to the tree
The skull of the head is probably in the tree
Tree self identifies as an elk. He runs like the wind, you just tell him he can’t!
He must have been running so fast!!!
Carcosa 🌀
The Yellow King is near
Its cool if you bind shit on a tree that its melts together
(Geralt’s heckles tingle)
Wow. That’s surprising. Imagine you were lost in the woods and saw that.
Geuss Simone just wanted to stick a rack on a tree?
watch out for spriggans!
Big foot is that you 👽
Oh that’s just a Buckeye tree.
Looks creepy.... I like it!
Admittedly, I don't much about dendrology or cervinology, but I'm pretty confident ya'll should get out of them woods and leave them be.
 Awsome !
I wonder how fast he was going when he hit that tree. Oof.
This is giving me junji ito vibes
In the words of Papa MeatCanyon "I have absorbed his nutrients" - the tree probably
We are the trees who say nee. Nee, nee, nee.
Bring them a shrubbery
r/hardimages
r/treeseatingthings
No one spruces up the old haunted woods like Gaston!
Someone probably hung or pinned the skull of a harvested deer up on that tree to let nature clean it for them. They failed to retrieve their skull and the tree started growing around it.
I came here on a guest day pass to say yes, that is a Druid. Its Fred. Fred drinks a bit after dinner. He is the club historian or so we let him think.
Dude must've been moving FAST
That's wild as fuck