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The Iberian deer (Dama dama) nature park and Terra Natura Murcia animals have faced the final stretch of the escoda, a natural process that occurs every summer in this species and that is the loss velvet horns remain.
The escoda happens at the end of the growth cycle of the deer antler.
When the blade is formed these animals rub their antlers to get rid of the velvet that covers them for five months a year.
The group of deer Murcia complex currently composed of 11 copies of which 5 are males keep their antlers until late March, at which point the lost to renew them again.
Changes in deer antler related to the sexual cycle of males and their reproductive activity.
Curiously, the horn is not only an ornamental function, but is also directly linked to food animal way.
The development of this component depends on the contribution of minerals which receives sheet and the genetics of each animal itself.
During the growth process of the skin a velvety horns going irrigated until the vessels become clogged and dry skin is established.
Visitors who come to these months will see Terra Natura Murcia how deer antler rub with vegetation of its enclosure in order to eliminate the fluff and how the final horn arises, called escoda.
It will be in March when these animals lose their horns, a process called desmogue, and begin again the cycle of development of this part of your body.
Source: Agencias
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