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| <Hoghead> |
Deer and deer family members don't have upper front teeth. None, nada, zip. | ||
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| <Don Martin29> |
I shot a buck in VT that had no molars. I have no idea why. It was a mature buck of normal size for the area. | ||
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| <Peter Walker> |
Rifleman Deer have no front uppers. On a full grown deer there is a gap of 3 or 4 inches to the rear molars, you really have to pull the mouth open to see the rear teeth. If you shot one before with a full set of chompers he had a dandy dentist. | ||
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| one of us |
Yeah, I have seen this a couple of times. Deer with no teeth. Matter of fact, they had no brains either. All they had was one big hole in the back of thier head!( They had kinda had buggy eyes too) | |||
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one of us |
I shot a nice 6x6 elk this year that had four front lowers and one ivory left, and one of the front lowers was fractured and just about gone. This was definitely age related. Still had a nice symmetrical rack that scored about 315, though. FWIW, Dutch. | |||
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one of us |
 <<<<<<<<< SMILE >>>>>>>>>> How long you have been hunting deer? Deer don't have uppers in the front, and the molars are WAYYYYYYYY back in the mouth! ------------------ | |||
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It is the presence of juvenile three crown premolars and the condition of the adult two-crown pre-molars and molars that provide the most consistent indication to the age of deer. By the terms of my agreement with the owners of the land I hunt over, I am obliged to remove and boil out the bottom jaw of all the deer I shoot in order to age them correctly. I have boxes full of jaws at home - although sometimes my dogs get lucky! ------------------ Richard | |||
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| One of Us |
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The ones with upper teeth are probably throw backs to when giant jackalopes roamed the countryside. Cheers !!! | |||
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| <perrydog> |
All cervids(deer family-moose, elk, caribou, etc.) have no upper incisors/canines. Sheep, goats, cattle, pronghorns and I assume, since I have no direct experience, true antelopes also lack these. Maybe someone with some dental knowledge of large herbivores can enlighten us on some of the african/asian species such as giraffes, hippos, rhinos, elephants..elephants at least have upper canines... Anyone that has been bitten by a horse(basically anyone that has been near one in my experience)knows horses have upper and lower incisors. Pigs(and their cousins javelinas/pecaries) have the upper canines/incisors too. | ||
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| one of us |
Seems to me I recall a deer in So. America that has upper fangs like a baboon or cat, big'uns. ???????????? right? ------------------ | |||
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Ray, Do a search on Chinese Water Deer if you want to see a sabre toothed deer! Pete | |||
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