I recently pulled the memory card from my trail camera, and in addition to the expected eastern cottontail rabbits and “normal” white-tailed deer, the area in front of my camera was visited numerous times by a deer with an abnormal antler formation.

I have never encountered anything like this before, and some brief googling regarding abnormal antler growth produced a fascinating array of bizarre antler shapes and forms, but nothing that quite resembled the drooping club of an antler that this fellow has. I’d be curious to know if anyone know what would’ve caused this.