Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 678
nge everyspring, and the barasingha deer at the CincinnatiZoological Garden has been known to shed hisantlers twice in one year. Even the huge mooseloses his enormous weapons, only to have abrand-new pair in five months. So rapid is thegrowth of these antlers that the owners oftengrow thin and weak… … INDIAN ANTELOPE—AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE HORN. 460 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Mar., have explained, every year. Horns, on the otherhand, never drop oft ; they consist of a bony coreover which is laid a horny covering, composed,not of bone, but of the same sort of materialfound in finger-nails…
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