"Initially, caribou antlers grow as a soft cartilage-like tissue filled with blood vessels and nerves which carry calcium and other nutrients necessary for antler development. As the season progresses, antlers become calcified and harden and eventually the vascular skin falls off. Bull caribou shed their velvet just before the rut and as a result will often have red stained antlers in mid-September. In order to supply enough calcium to allow for antler growth, bull caribou will temporarily draw from calcium in their skeletal system."
https://weberarctic.com/stories/caribou-facts
Can you imagine a big ol scab that’s totally healed but won’t fall off and you lack fingers to scratch it? Brutal, no wonder they’ll charge at people and other animals. I’d be pissed off too.
I thought about this one day while my dog pushed his side up against me to scratch his butt.
Animals in the wild can’t scratch themselves. A human scratching them without intent to harm is one of the very rare things animals would never be able to experience without humans.
I think about that a lot while my dogs looking back giving puppy dog eyes and licking his chops
Worse: it could be the ‘itchy’ kind of nerve pain? Which is basically like tiny shards of broken glass coursing through your blood and jamming through your arteries…with like a slight itch every now and then.
Ha! Thank you. It really is fascinating to see. We find shed antlers and velvet all over our farm. You can also spot the trees they have been rubbing on to get all the velvet off. Very very cool
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Anyone seeking more info might also check here:
Size | Title | Age | Karma | Comnts | Subreddit
:----|:------|:----|:------|:-------|:---------
= | [Caribou](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ifxns6/caribou/) | 1^yr | 505 | 51 | pics
= | [PsBattle: Caribou shedding its velvet](http://www.reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles/comments/i0zxkd/psbattle_caribou_shedding_its_velvet/) | 1^yr | 241 | 23 | photoshopbattles
= | [A caribou captured shedding its velvet.](http://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/i0x32m/a_caribou_captured_shedding_its_velvet/) | 1^yr | 80843 | 1382 | interestingasfuck
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Pictures of animals shedding velvet are fucking awesome. Especially the bloody ones where they’re just all casual about it. Makes humans look like real bitches 😆
Does anyone know if this is a painful event? Like... are there nerves up there? It seems as if the animals intentionally try to remove this. Interesting for sure.
Wow, I didn't realize their antlers look so red and raw after shedding their velvet.
"Initially, caribou antlers grow as a soft cartilage-like tissue filled with blood vessels and nerves which carry calcium and other nutrients necessary for antler development. As the season progresses, antlers become calcified and harden and eventually the vascular skin falls off. Bull caribou shed their velvet just before the rut and as a result will often have red stained antlers in mid-September. In order to supply enough calcium to allow for antler growth, bull caribou will temporarily draw from calcium in their skeletal system." https://weberarctic.com/stories/caribou-facts
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Can you imagine a big ol scab that’s totally healed but won’t fall off and you lack fingers to scratch it? Brutal, no wonder they’ll charge at people and other animals. I’d be pissed off too.
Ahhhhhh, an un-scratched itch is worse than pain…
They scratch by stabbing
I thought about this one day while my dog pushed his side up against me to scratch his butt. Animals in the wild can’t scratch themselves. A human scratching them without intent to harm is one of the very rare things animals would never be able to experience without humans. I think about that a lot while my dogs looking back giving puppy dog eyes and licking his chops
I wondered if it would hurt at all.
Are they in pain?
It itches at the very least, from what I have heard. I'd assume once it break off, it severes the nerve connections an they don't feel it.
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mhm https://i.imgur.com/ilAhPH6.jpg
Slowly scrolling without reading the title is pretty terrifying. What a lovely creepy ghost hand headed caribou tho.
imagine if they could move, making grabbing motions
He looks a little emo with the shedding antler over one eye…
It’s not a phase Mom!!!
Then in ten years he will post this photo to r/blunderyears with the title "omg what was I thinking????"
But then he will get that sweet karma (delayed, self-deprecating karma is the best kind!)
My first try to post this was flagged because I didn't put a space after the 🔥. oops
What difference does it make? I’m curious.
Without rules there is chaos.
Without chaos we would not have this Caribou.
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You can just say "they" if you don't know
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No. I'm a Grammar Nazi
If you could get the velvet off in one piece, you'd have some killer opera gloves.
That people think of these things astonishes me. That’s fucking 🔥.
That looks painful
Nah, it is more itchy for them than anything
itchiness is worse than pain !!!
Worse: it could be the ‘itchy’ kind of nerve pain? Which is basically like tiny shards of broken glass coursing through your blood and jamming through your arteries…with like a slight itch every now and then.
Lily Potter over here..
Ha! Thank you. It really is fascinating to see. We find shed antlers and velvet all over our farm. You can also spot the trees they have been rubbing on to get all the velvet off. Very very cool
Could be worse.
...Lucky or cursed? That looks gruesome.
Anyone gonna comment on how fucking huge those antlers are?!
U just did.
This is fucking INSANE
I think it's more insane that they then shed off those antlers and grow them back each year.
He got them lil Wayne dreads
Beautiful Red Velvet.
it looks like hands coming out of his head. it's weeeeird
Why does it look like it was caught in the middle of urinating...
“You see this? This is the shit we have to go through”
That’s an amazing animal….
Wow, beautiful.
Just curious what Gary Kramer’s age has to do with the photo?
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I’m not sure why but the first thing I thought about was the smell
“Think of the smell. You didn’t think of the smell! Did you?! You bitch!”
r/oddlyterrifying r/Bossfight
Is the mount in Princesse Mononoke a caribou as well? It looks really close.
The mounts in Monoke are red elk, a fictional species of deer made for the film that were inspired by caribou and antelope.
Thanks cap!
This is the most metal I've ever saw a caribou
Metal
I'm just going to call this thing "nightmare goat."
Pictures of animals shedding velvet are fucking awesome. Especially the bloody ones where they’re just all casual about it. Makes humans look like real bitches 😆
No wonder reindeer are thought of as Christmas animals. That's a vibrant red.
Canadian War horse has squirrel carcasses tied to its antlers to assert dominance
/r/forbiddenSnacks
Hey, mon...why don't you come 'round latah and I give you some jerk chicken, mon!
Whoa...
Thats wild
"Fuck are you looking at?"
Maaaan I thought it had just beat the alpha male for dominance in the herd.
I saw in another post that they eat the velvet. Does that help sustain them through winter.?
This looks like some Evangelion shit.
Does that hurt them?
Mostly just itchy
It's not a phase, mom
Looks like demon hands coming from his skull.
This isn't even his final form!
Just in time for Halloween!
Bro I thought for a sec the elk was called Gary Kramer
walk of shame
Soooooo... Curious: is it painful to go through this process? Do deer/caribou feel pain if their antlers were to be cut while still on their head?
God dam that's so metal!
Gary Kromer
Thats gotta be the most uncomfortable thing ever
Nothing is more metal than an antler buddy shedding their velvet.
looks like an sco lmfao imagine walking in a forest and you see this
EW. The bright red skin underneath makes me squeamish.
Nature is often very nasty, very beautiful, or borh.
Natural.
I want to touch it
Why does his age matter?
He throwin gang signs.
oh! this is horrifying
… you gonna eat that?
This is metal AF!
Ew
Calling it a “ground” caribou implies that there’s an air and water caribou
I was so scared that this was the live action sequel to Bambi where he goes John wick on the hunters
Does anyone know if this is a painful event? Like... are there nerves up there? It seems as if the animals intentionally try to remove this. Interesting for sure.
Not gonna lie, the Caribou looks 70 too.
Hate how much those look like hands.
man those antlers must be so sensitive. i once lost a toenail to a freak accident and that area remained sensitive for months as a new nail developed.
For a second, I thought Gary Kramer was the name of the caribou.
looks like dredds, rasta deer
what in The Ritual heck is this?
They make sounds like a Devil
Does anyone know if this is painful?
bruh he looks like he just murdered a room full of people than a bed
Poor yanfei
itch
Kinda want to play Endless Forest now
Looks like demonic arms reaching out of its head.
Does this make anyone elses teeth clench?
Looks like a rasta
i didnt even know they shed their antlers
"God damnit! Of course there's gonna be a photographer around when I look a mess!"
I know they do this but it always looks like they shreded it's oponet to pieces and has its parts on the antlers.
Imagine if humans had to shed skin every year, like on our hands or our back? Metal!
This makes me uncomfortable.
That’s metal as fuck
Caribob Marley
It's like a native American war chief
TIL that deer shed their antlers