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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5006836" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Trophic memory is the ability of the deer's nervous system to "remember" injuries that occurred to a growing antler and reproduce the same injury-induced deformity in future years, even though that injury has not occurred to future year's velvet antlers. Sometimes, these type of deformities fade with age, being less and less pronounced each year.</p><p></p><p>Now the types of injuries where a buck grows a normal antler on one side and a highly deformed cluster of spikes or a single spike on the other side is usually due to pedicle damage that occurs at antler shedding. In essence, the antler comes off a little too soon, tearing the center out of the pedicle. This type of damage to the growth center of the antler produces permanent deformities that get worse with age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5006836, member: 17"] Trophic memory is the ability of the deer's nervous system to "remember" injuries that occurred to a growing antler and reproduce the same injury-induced deformity in future years, even though that injury has not occurred to future year's velvet antlers. Sometimes, these type of deformities fade with age, being less and less pronounced each year. Now the types of injuries where a buck grows a normal antler on one side and a highly deformed cluster of spikes or a single spike on the other side is usually due to pedicle damage that occurs at antler shedding. In essence, the antler comes off a little too soon, tearing the center out of the pedicle. This type of damage to the growth center of the antler produces permanent deformities that get worse with age. [/QUOTE]
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