'growing antlers' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the process of developing antlers, which is a characteristic of certain animals such as deer, moose, and elk. Example: The male deer spends the summer months growing antlers to prepare for the mating season.
Likewise, deer have adopted similar mechanisms for antler regeneration to prevent growing antlers from freezing if deer happen to inhabit temperate zones to repair broken tines and to maintain in proportion to body size [ 65].
The blood-engorged, growing antlers are warm to the touch and quite sensitive.
(Growing antlers are covered in a blood-engorged skin called velvet).
The growing antlers are encased in "velvet," a highly vascularized, nerve-filled skin covered by short, soft hairs.
A previous study from our group [12] revealed that neurotrophin-3 (NT-3), a nerve trophic factor, is widely expressed in the growing antlers.
Growing antlers are enveloped in a hair-covered skin known as velvet that presents several peculiarities, including lack of sweat glands and arrector pili muscles and the presence of abundant multilobullated sebaceous glands[4].
But further in we find the postcard scene: kapok trees growing antler-like from temple walls, strangler figs winding in and out of brickwork like mortar-eating snakes.
To explore the means by which prions are transmitted with high efficiency among cervids, we examined prion infectivity in the apical skin layer covering the growing antler (antler velvet) by using CWD-susceptible transgenic mice and protein misfolding cyclic amplification.
Therefore, large-bodied species require more nutrients and energy to grow antlers than do small-bodied species.
TESTOSTERONE injections can make male rats more aggressive in marking their territories, cause castrated red deer to grow antlers, and induce female rhesus monkeys to screech like males.
"Both animals have antlers, however, which indicates we are dealing with reindeer, the only deer species whose females grow antlers," says Cook. "Crucially, males lose theirs in December but females keep theirs.
