Am I alone in thinking it's fucking retarded that deer grow antlers?What the fuck is this shit...

its not a blade

antlers aren't that retarded. if you want to see retarded you need to look no farther than peacocks. the females pick the males with the largest and most impressive feathers. they can fly but not far, because the weight of the feathers weighs them down. the females have gimped the entire species because they keep choosing something that will eventually make them flightless. out of all the animals on earth, birds have the most absurd mating rituals.

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They use it to fight though

The ones with antlers killed the ones without resting in only the ones with antlers

>out of all the animals on earth, birds have the most absurd mating rituals.
it's mostly just peacocks, most other birds just kinda fuck whenever and don't dance around

weirdest it gets is that their tails get in the way but for the most part they pair off pretty normally without retarded dances or selecting for too much weird shit

>bbut the 1 songbird in australia also--
yeah and its almost extinct, meanwhile look at pigeons and seagulls and crows and other actually prolific birds, they dont do this shit

evolution isn't reaI

That's a secondary component, though also important. Here's the thing: their antlers are their form of self-defense. Their antlers evolved because it helps them stay alive by fighting off potential predators and each other. They'd have a much harder time surviving in the wild without antlers.

Evolution doesn't optimize for anything other than "did [animal with gene] have more babies than [animal without gene]. Antlers are an honest signal and a way to compete...
Do you know about the Widow Bird? It's basically a peacock on steroids.

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Are dinosaur fossils placed in the ground by God to test our faith?

Deer antlers grow an entire meter in only a month.

It was recently discovered that the way that animals such as moose, deer, cows, giraffe, etc. grow these antlers is through a form of controlled bone cancer. They have genes that are known to promote the growth of tumors.

how do dinosaur fossils prove evolution?

>That guy's talking to my bitch!
>My teeth aren't designed to bite
>My hooves aren't designed to scratch

It then became a competition between him and the other deer to mate. The one that was talking to the bitch attacked other deer by backing up his butt into them. The other one headbutt his enemies. The two get into a fight and, since the butt butter couldn't generate much force, the head butter won and got to pass on his genes. This seemed to be a trend in that the one that butt heads beat the butt butters and so the head butters tended to pass on their genes more often.

Then, 100,000 years later, head butting was the meta. All of a sudden, there was a new phenotype (inspired by practices like sex separation and the gene recombination it provides or perhaps a random mutation) that had little spikes on the skull. That one mogged the fuck out of the flat skull idiots and crushed a whole bunch of deer puss. It then became a competition over hundreds of thousands of years to have the biggest and most easily maintained antlers to mog the fuck out of antlets and other predators.

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How else would you design a deer then user? What would they use to fight other than antlers?

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This shit happens in mammals aswell.
Proof that the source of all evil are females.

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They have long necks to fight other giraffes, not to eat leaves

I thought Deer have permanent antlers and Elk shed their off

you jelly, fetherlet?

hornlet spotted

based deer user
give them a tail like a stegosaurus

Fuck off and die, there is nothing wrong with having small antlers

Antlers are just one form of sexual dimorphism. It's almost always the male that has these exaggerated traits. The more colorful birds are usually male. Antlers and horns are usually adorned on the heads of males. The larger of the sexes is usually the male. The cause of this phenomenon is sexual selection - male competition and female choice.
Males are sexually redundant. One male can impregnate 10 females in one day, while a female may only have 10 children in a lifetime. This disparity causes females to be more selective with the mates they choose. After generations of sexual selection, sexually dimorphic features arise.

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It's over for antlercels.

>A FEW. MILLIMETERS. OF BONE.

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Check out the moose antlers at the natural history museum in Vienna - Bambi it isn't.