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annually. Only the males (except with the reindeer) have 

 horns. The antelope (Antilocapra americand) (fig. 131) 

 common on the Western plains also sheds its horns, which, 



however, are not solid and do not break off at the base as 

 in the deer, but are composed of an inner bony core and 

 an outer horny sheath, the outer sheath only being shed. 

 The family Bovidae includes the once abundant buffalo or 



