elk antler
Wapiti head growth
Elk antler is the branched bony growth shed annually by male elk.
Prized for crafts, furniture, and dog chews, elk antlers are harder and longer-lasting than deer antlers.
In traditional medicine, velvet from growing antlers is valued as a supplement: elk antler velvet extract.
Shed antlers are collected from forests; some ranchers harvest velvet from farmed elk.
- mooseLargest cervid, northern forests
- deerAntlered hoofed mammal
- velvetThick-pile textile
- rackFrame for holding items
- tinesFork's pointed projections
shed · shed hunting · buck · Rocky Mountain · trophy · trophy room · horn · rut · rut season · bull · points · bone · hunting · mount · wilderness · forest · bugle · calcium
- branchingbranching, dendrite, dendrites, dendritic, tree root
- pet toysball, bone, chew toy, fetch toy, plush toy
- animal productswool, leather, hide, pelt, fur
- hornsFrench horn, bugle, cornet, hunting horn, post horn
- aphrodisiacsoysters, ginseng, maca, rhino horn, chocolate
- ivory substitutescelluloid, casein