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When Do Moose Start Growing There Antlers?

by @ 5:24 am on November 11, 2020. Filed under Q&A


Unlike the “horns” that animals like cows and goats sport year-round, antlers grow from scratch and are discarded each year. Deer and moose begin growing their antlers in March or April, and they’re fully grown by late August.

Do moose lose both their antlers the same day?

Between mid-November and March is when moose in British Columbia typically lose their antlers; younger moose keep their antlers until later in the winter and it is usually only two year old moose that may still adorn their antlers come March. In his article How they grow and what they tell you, Kenneth N. Child states…

Do moose really lose their antlers every Winer?

Samuel says bull moose typically lose their antlers between mid-December and the end of January. Older bulls are known to shed earlier, although the moose in the video looks like a younger adult, he notes. Still, Samuel says he isn’t that surprised to find a moose dropping an antler earlier given the range of variability in nature.


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