### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Buck
* Most bucks have antlers
  - large antlers
  - oral contact with the doe's rear end as part of courtship behavior
  - rub antlers
  - shed antlers
  - tend to antlers
* Some bucks also have lower sperm counts than others
  - attain maturity
* Some bucks have conspicuous black patches
  - scent glands
  - tusks
  - rub the same trees year after year
* also eat more than does, and destroy thier fences more frequently
  - have a change in normal behaviour prior to breeding
* are deers
  - extremely sensitive to hunting pressure when they're on a pattern
  - generally what are thought to be temperamental and smelly animals
  - larger bodied than does with thicker necks and broader chests
  - male animals
  - placentals
  - primarily solitary animals
  - territorial all year round, again depending on size, age and status
* begin antler development in spring and antler size depends on both age and nutrition
  - growing their first rack of antlers in the spring following their birth
  - to spar with their antlers as a test of strength and a way to establish dominance
* breathe breaths
  - last breaths
* do smell during breeding season, however they do smell good to the does.
* expend large amounts of energy during the rut.
* fight each other by clashing antlers to determine who can mate with a particular female
  - for dominance
* frequently have more white hair than does
  - hairs through the coat than does
* generally live alone or in small groups.
* get downright ornery during the mating season.
* grow a new set of antlers each year, which they shed after the breeding season.
* grow antlers each year that reach five to six feet in spread
  - that are covered in velvet each summer, as elk do too
  - new antlers each year
* have a blocky head and body compared to a doe of the same breed.
* have a dark stripe down the back and older males grow a long, dark beard
  - on their front legs and one down their back, as well as a dark beard
  - sixth sense called vomolcation
* have antlers which are shed once a year
  - fork once, and each fork divides again
  - dark brown to black bodies with white bellies and eye rings
* have large and beautiful antlers which are dropped each year
  - large, flattened, shovel-shaped antlers
  - long, lyre-shaped horns
  - mass measurements
  - sharp antlers, as well as tusks which can do serious damage to foxes, dogs and humans
  - territory
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - chest cavities
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
* love patches of trees
  - to rub and scrape in old logging roads
* mark territory.
* mature and age, much as a man does, from boyhood to adulthood.
* normally shed their antlers each year.
* notes that in some cultures dogs are eaten.
* often congregate in bachelor groups composed of neighboring bucks
  - fight fierce antler battles to defend their territory
  - lose weight during the breeding season, but regain it during spring
* remove the velvet from their antlers on small trees and shrubs.
  - their antlers against trees and shrubs
  - trees to mark territories and strengthen their neck muscles for fighting
  - their antlers each winter
* take a long time to fully mature and can continue growing into their second year.
* usually have antlers by their second year, and eight points by the fifth.

### animal | vertebrate | mammal | buck:

Mature buck
* Most mature bucks make scrapes near their bedding area or between bedding and feeding areas.
* seem to be most prone to overeating high-energy supplemental foods
  - crawl into holes and disappear

Pronghorn buck
* Some pronghorn bucks have glands
  - scent glands
* have nine scent glands and does have six.