Tuffbucker
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I was reading the "Darner-post" and it made me start to think....
Now Im not saying that this is what happened in the Darner case, it is obvious that those are the same bucks.. but I started to wonder...
In humans, there are two types of twins....identical and fraternal. Identical come from a single egg that splits...therefore causing the two children to have identical DNA, fingerprints, etc. Fraternal come from two seperate eggs...therefore the resulting children have different DNA, fingerprints...
Now do you think that the same thing happens in Mule Deer? And if so if you had identical twin male fawns, that both grew up in the same environment with similar amounts of food, water, etc....do you think the result would be two bucks with IDENTICAL racks???
Well, what do ya'll think??? Like I said, this thought just came to me, and I was curious what other people thought about it?
TUFF
Now Im not saying that this is what happened in the Darner case, it is obvious that those are the same bucks.. but I started to wonder...
In humans, there are two types of twins....identical and fraternal. Identical come from a single egg that splits...therefore causing the two children to have identical DNA, fingerprints, etc. Fraternal come from two seperate eggs...therefore the resulting children have different DNA, fingerprints...
Now do you think that the same thing happens in Mule Deer? And if so if you had identical twin male fawns, that both grew up in the same environment with similar amounts of food, water, etc....do you think the result would be two bucks with IDENTICAL racks???
Well, what do ya'll think??? Like I said, this thought just came to me, and I was curious what other people thought about it?
TUFF