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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
More locked elk antler photos
Here are some photos of a pair of elk who have locked horns. Link
Previously on Boing Boing:
• Fighting elk lock horns and die
Reader comment:
Scrubb says:
Locked horns -- though bizarre -- aren't as unusual as you might think. There's even a sketch of some stags with locked horns in the classic Gnomes by Poortvliet and Huygen. (Rescuing animals in this predicament is a typical gnome job, apparently.) There's also a painting on the subject by Carl Rungius -- Teddy Roosevelt's hunting buddy -- called Caribou's Death Struggle that I think is in Vermont's Shelburne Museum, though I couldn't find an image online. Rugius was inspired by finding a set of the antlers himself. You can find the Rungius painting in Gray's Sporting Journal, Vol. 4.6 (1979), p. 42.
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