Bucks rub their antlers on small, flexible trees in order to rub off the velvet that initially covers them. During rut, bucks rub their antlers on trees to attract receptive doe's and to demarcate territory and warn other bucks to stay away.
Bucks rub their antlers on small, flexible trees in order to rub off the velvet that initially covers them. During rut, bucks rub their antlers on trees to attract receptive doe's and to demarcate territory and warn other bucks to stay away.
Deer grow a new set of antlers each year. The new antlers are covered in a kind of velvet. Because of fighting and searching for food the velvet becomes rather tatty, often hanging down in strips. This can reduce the animals vision, which is highly important to such an animal. So it rids itself of the offending velvet by rubbing its antlers against trees. The bare antlers are used especially in the "rutting" season (the mating season) when the strongest deer, usually with the largest and perfectly shaped antlers, will be able to assemble his own herd of females. Later in the year the antlers are "cast" off, but the material of which they are made is not wasted because the deer will gnaw away at the antlers to take in the stuff needed for antlers to grow once more.
they rub them together to imitate bucks fighting, deer calling
That's a very good question, but I think that trees don't die after a deer rubs on it because it doesn't do anything but rub it. No the tree will not die. The deer rubs its antlers to get the furry stuff off and does very little damage to the tree.
If by they, you mean deer, then yes. Velvet covers deer's antlers and feeds the antlers the vitamins and minerals it needs to grow. There is a base at the base of each antler, and when the antlers have received enough vitamins and minerals, the base cuts off the blood flow to the antlers, causing the velvet to dry out, shrivel up, and fall off. The velvet is itchy, so the deer rub up against trees and such to help get the velvet off. Basically the only reason the deer's antler's bleed is because the blood may not be fully cut off and the deer still find it itchy so they try to scratch it off themselves.
A scrape is in the ground with their feet, and a rub is on a tree with their antlers
This is known as a buck rub.
it can very, from brown, to dark almost black, to an ivory color. it all depends on what the deer have had to rub their antlers on. Dark colored horns are usually pine, lighter are usually oak and sage.
Showing supremacy among the ranks and to fight other males for dominance. And when they grow their antlers long enough, they sometimes rub them against trees to rub the "leather" off their antlers.
Actually they are bull elk and what is on their antlers is velvet. It is a tissue (like skin) that provides the antlers nutrition while they are in the growth stage. As the seasons progress the bull's hormones change and the tissue begins to die. He then rubs it off on trees and produces his polished antlers. After the mating season (rut) hormones will change again and he will shake off his antlers to grow a new set for the next year.
you rub honey on the golden trees.
They most certainly do. I witnessed a deer devouring my new dappled willow on my front lawn last night.