Alberta Ungulates/ antler and horn characteristics Flashcards
Big horn sheep
Horns brown.
Males : heavy to massive
Curling back in spiral
Females : horns thinner, backward curling
Mountain goat
Horns slender
Black
With slight backward curve
Pronghorn antelope
Horns black
Erect
Tips curved in with single wide forward prong
What five ungulates have antlers. “Deer like”
Moose White tail deer Mule deer Caribou Elk
Moose
Antlers are palmitate Wide Flats Heavy Horizontally spread
What ungulates only has palmitate antlers?
Wide
Flats
Horizontally spread
MOOSE
What four ungulates do not have palmitate antlers?
White tailed deer
Mule deer
Caribou
Elk
White tail deer
Antlers less prominent (thinner)
Thin, forward sweeping, I branched tines on main beam
Mule deer
Less prominent, thinner
Upright, not sweating forward
Antlers upswept, branching, no prominent brow tine
Caribou
Thinner antlers
Upright, not forward sweeping
Antlers upswept, branching, v-pronged tines
Prominent brow tine
Elk
Antlers are heaven and prominent, wide, branching off main beam up to the rear.
What three ungulates have horns and not antlers?
Big horn sheep
Mountain goat
Pronghorn antelope
