Friends, yesterday i showed you a white tail deer and today’s image is of a mule deer in the badlands.  His antler tines branch and in spring and summer his antlers are covered in velvet, a vascular tissue that causes the antlers to grow and deposit calcium.  He loses his antlers every year like the white tail but is a much larger animal.  They frequent the rugged ravines and steep hills regions of the National Park.  The below image shows the very early stages of antler growth. til Tomorrow MJ