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Just for Christmas: Rudolph May, in Fact, be Regina

A fun post for Christmas Eve: a hunter in West Virginia (I know, redundant) has felled a deer with antlers that turned out to be… a doe.

For the uninformed, it typically goes like this: Male deer are bucks, and bucks have antlers. Female deer, or doe, do not have antlers. Typically. From the AP article:

“It can happen,” Todd Dowdy, a wildlife biologist with the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, told the AP. “I don’t have any statistics on it to tell you how often they appear or how rare it is, but it’s very rare.”

I’ll go out on the limb and say that the other deer absolutely didn’t care about the antlers and let their late friend play all the reindeer games she wanted, antlers or no antlers.

Merry Christmas.