Do female deer have horns?

Answer 1

Though uncommon, it occurs often enough that most states no longer have "buck" or "doe" tags for hunters. They now have antlerless or antlered tags.

It's caused by a hormonal imbalance, similar to the one that causes my mother in law to grow a better mustache than mine.

And, yes, like all the others say, they are called antlers, but they're just repeating what the others say.

Answer 2

Do Female Deer Have Antlers

Answer 3

Yes some of them do. Female caribou and reindeer
commonly grow antlers along with their male counterparts. In addition, some female white tail deer (and I suspect mule deer, although I don’t know for sure) will grow antlers. This phenomenon is well known to most deer hunters, who are not supposed to be shooting does but can get away with it if the doe has antlers.

Now, to address this question (leaving out the exceptions noted above) we first need to ask – why should any deer grown antlers? Growing anything (an arm, a tail, or an antler) is associated with a metabolic cost – it takes food energy to grow that structure and gathering food exposes an animal to predation risk. Employing the adaptationist paradigm, we can assume that antlers serve a function that is important to males, but that function is not as important to females. In the case of deer, that function is the inter-male competition for mates. Deer really only use their antlers to fight with other deer. They are not usually used to fight off predators, which is one of the reasons that antlers are/can be shed annually.

So, male deer need to antlers to fight with other male deer to gain access to females. Female deer do not employ the same competitive strategies among themselves, and so do not “need” antlers. What we see here is an example of sexual selection. Having large antlers actually works against the long term survival of the buck (these deer are the prime targets of hunters), but it does allow the buck to gain reproductive access to more females. And, from the biological perspective, reproduction is the entire
purpose of existence.

Answer 4

Actually, deer do not have horns at all. Male deer have antlers that develop from two tiny bumps that are present when they are born. Antlers are shed and regrown every year. Occasionally a female deer will have small stubs.

The only species of deer where the female develops antlers are reindeer.

Answer 5

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Do female deer have horns?

Answer 6

Nope. And neither do male deers. Deer have antlers... big difference from horns. Horns are permanent. Antlers shed each year and grow back in the summer. But female deer (Does) do not have antlers

Answer 7

white tail deer girls don't have antlers and none of them have horns antlers come of sometimes and horns never do unless somebody cuts them of. but both male and female Reigndeer (caribou) have antlers.
and this not well known fact. male Raindeer can't pull Santa's sleigh. because males louse most of
thier body fat in winter females don't males louse thier antlers in winter females don't
so thier is no way a bunch of scrawny males can pull a sleigh filled with one BIG guy and tons of toys
i didn't spell most of them right :( sorry
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Answer 8

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Menopause. Lack of production of estrogen and progesterone. They act as an inhibitor for horn growth, so without them...antlers!

Answer 9

No, but there was a 7 legged, inter-sexed deer that had antlers. A true abnormallity of nature.

Answer 10

Yes there are some very rare cases when a doe have been found with antlers. But not very often.