Male elk face a trade-off regarding when to drop their antlers
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 08:33
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found that male elk face a trade-off regarding the appropriate time to drop their antlers. In their paper published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, the group describes their 13-year study of elk living in Yellowstone National Park—and the wolves that hunt them.