DEER ANTLERS: REGENERATION, FUNCTION, AND EVOLUTION. By Richard J. Goss.

# 1983 1st edition. 8vo (157 x 234mm). Ppxvi,316. B/w photographs, illustrations, charts, extensive bibliography. Grey boards, blind border to upper and lower boards, spine titled in orange.

# "This is a book about one of nature's most remarkable accomplishments. When deer grow antlers they are actually regenerating anatomically complex appendages - something that no other mammal can do.. [This book] is as scientifically accurate as it is readable.. [and] is certain to arouse curiosity about the many unsolved probems of how antlers grow, die, and are shed in the course of a single year." Chapters include: Introduction; The diversity of deer; Horns and tusks; The evolution of deer; The social significance of antlers; A fawn's first antlers; Developmental anatomy of antlers; Regeneration; Abnormal antlers; The case of the asymmetric antlers; Light and latitude; Internal influences; Castration; Antlered does and Antlerless bucks; Medicinal uses of antlers.