New research suggests female reindeer antlers serve as postpartum snacks, with new moms munching on them after giving birth ...

Female caribou chew shed antlers to get calcium and phosphorus. These minerals help them produce milk after giving birth.

Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females—like males—have antlers. A study of ...

A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth ...

Learn how the answer behind why female caribou have antlers lies in how shed antlers provide a nutritional lifeline to a famous migratory group of Arctic caribous.

The study documented antlers shed by caribou in the Arctic tundra that had stayed undisturbed for decades. Researchers found ...

Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females, like males, have antlers. A new study of shed antlers collected from calving grounds in the Arctic ...

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati found evidence that caribou, particularly moms with newborns, gnaw on antlers ...

While someone who doesn’t know anything about animals might confuse them, reindeer and deer are two different animals. Though they belong to the same family, confusingly called “deer,” many different ...

Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females, like males, have antlers. A new study of shed ...