Abstract
Female roe deer with antlers and male roe deer without antlers have earlier been mentioned in the literature, but the frequency of these phenomena has never been reported. We found that the frequency of pedicles was 6.0 % among 50 female fawns, 6.9 % among 29 females 1.5 year old, 0 % among 20 females 2.5 years old, and 14.8 % among 27 females 3.5 years or older in a Norwegian roe deer population; only one female (1.3 %) grew true antlers. However, the differences in the frequencies of pedicles among does of various ages was not statistically significant, but the length of the cranial outgrowth in younger individuals tended to be shorter than that of older ones. Among the 85 male roe deer shot in the same period, only one 2.5 year old buck (1.1 %) posessed pedicles, but no antlers.
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