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Natural World 2017-2018, Nature's Wildest Weapons: Horns, Tusks and Antlers Nature's Wildest Weapons: Horns, Tusks and Antlers

From elephants to beetles, are animal weapons more than just instruments of blunt force?

  • A Jackson’s chameleon
  • Doug Emlen inspects naturally shed antlers in Elk Hall
  • An Elk
  • Doug Emlen holding a Rhinoceros beetle
  • An Elephant
  • Animal Weapons sign at the cinema with Doug Emlen
  • Rutting Elk
  • A Bighorn Sheep
  • Battling Elephants
  • A Fiddler Crab

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  • Natural World—2017-2018, Nature's Wildest Weapons: Horns, Tusks and Antlers

    Professor Doug Emlen discovers the secrets of nature's arms races.

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