The Old World deer include the 11 species of tropical Asian muntjacs (genus Muntiacus), the most primitive deer; males bear tusks and antlers on tall antler pedicles.
The university has now begun a more detailed research project into the potential of elk antler velvet (the fur on the antlers) for treating impotence.
Where do I party For drinks in the Jewellery Quarter, the Rose Villa Tavern is a creative take on the classic pub, with Victorian stained-glass windows and green tiling offset by madcap touches such as fairy-lit tree branches, antler chandeliers and a red phone box.
The male Irish elk, for example, developed a five-metre antler span just to impress the ladies shortly before the species went extinct.
Mining for copper ores was practiced at El Milagro and Aramo (Asturias), where the last miners abandoned their antler picks and levers deep in the underground galleries.
Malleable metal had several advantages over a brittle material, such as rock or bone or antler.
Projectile points with curved backs and end scrapers were used; bone tools included punches, "wands" (of uncertain use), and flat harpoons often made of red-deer antler.
The resulting deformation (the Antler orogeny) was close in age to the Ellesmerian orogeny in the Arctic.
More-advanced techniques, however, began about 1 million years ago; rather than simply smashing the rock against a boulder, a soft hammer (usually antler) began to be used.
The brow tine is unbranched, except in Pére David's deer, in which both it and the beam are branched, the brow tine forming the dominant part of the antler.
When used for divination, the kobdas was beaten with a T- or Y-shaped hammer made of reindeer antler, which caused a triangular piece of bone or metal called an arpa to move along the surface of the drum.
