Immature Scottish Red Deer Stags, with velvet horns on Mar Lodge Estate Royal Deeside, Braemar, Aberdeenshire Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK

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The Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest species of deer in the world. The species is the European Red Deer that inhabits most of Europe. Deer with fuzzy antlers, you are seeing a deer in velvet. That velvet provides nutrition and growth to deer antlers. This special tissue is a type of skin, loaded with blood vessels and nerves, that regenerates every year.

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Location: Braemar, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland uk
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License: Royalty Free
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