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Why are the hard protrusions from the heads of cattle, goats and sheep called horns while the ones on deer, moose, and elk are called antlers, please?
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You don't have too much time on your hands do you? (JOke)
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Because the hard protrusions from the heads of cattle, goats and sheep are horns and the ones on deer, moose, and elk are antlers.
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Antlers are branching bony appendages (on deer etc) whereas horns are pointed projections of the skin on the head of various animals, consisting of a covering of horn (keratin and other proteins) surrounding a core of living bone.
Antlers
Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone. Growth occurs at the tip, and is initially cartilage, which is mineralized to become bone. Once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies, this is the mature antler. In most cases, the bone at the base is destroyed by osteoclasts and the antlers fall off at some point (often seasonal).
Caribou and reindeer use their antlers to clear away snow so they can eat the vegetation underneath and in moose, antlers appear to act as large hearing aids. Moose with antlers have far more sensitive hearing than moose without, and a study of trophy antlers with an artificial ear confirmed that the antler behaves like a parabolic reflector.
Horns
Horns usually have a curved or spiral shape, often with ridges or fluting. In many species only the males have horns. Horns start to grow soon after birth, and continue to grow throughout the life of the animal. Animals have a variety of uses for horns; including defending themselves from predators and fighting members of their own species for territory, dominance or mating priority, they may be used to root in the soil or strip bark from trees.
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Because the hard protrusions from the heads of cattle, goats and sheep are horns and the ones on deer, moose, and elk are antlers. heh
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Because the hard protrusions from the heads of cattle, goats and sheep are horns and the ones on deer, moose, and elk are antlers. [Jackie impersonation] Come here a minute, Faldage.
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Is it not like a table and a chair are basically both made from wood and both have basically four legs. They both are furniture, but their difference in shape asks for a different word. Of course basically, somehow, in a sense, more or less, hyppottatically 
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Antlers are branching bony appendages (on deer etc) whereas horns are pointed projections of the skin on the head of various animals, consisting of a covering of horn (keratin and other proteins) surrounding a core of living bone.
Antlers
Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone. Growth occurs at the tip, and is initially cartilage, which is mineralized to become bone. Once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies, this is the mature antler. In most cases, the bone at the base is destroyed by osteoclasts and the antlers fall off at some point (often seasonal).
Caribou and reindeer use their antlers to clear away snow so they can eat the vegetation underneath and in moose, antlers appear to act as large hearing aids. Moose with antlers have far more sensitive hearing than moose without, and a study of trophy antlers with an artificial ear confirmed that the antler behaves like a parabolic reflector.
Horns
Horns usually have a curved or spiral shape, often with ridges or fluting. In many species only the males have horns. Horns start to grow soon after birth, and continue to grow throughout the life of the animal. Animals have a variety of uses for horns; including defending themselves from predators and fighting members of their own species for territory, dominance or mating priority, they may be used to root in the soil or strip bark from trees. I actually am grateful for these explanations. Thanks, bex.
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[Jackie impersonation]
Come here a minute, Faldage.
Fortunately for you bexter filled in for me.
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I like Jackie's style. I copy it often. Come 'ere, Faldage or Bexter, or whoever has been teasing you.
Eta: Bexter's not teased Jackie. How is he filling in for you?
Sorry jackie - I did not mean no disrespect. Only love.
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[Jackie impersonation]
Come here a minute, Faldage.
Fortunately for you bexter filled in for me. Oooohhh... You guys are gonna get it! 
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Thank you, bexie love--that is really informational. Antler is bone, while a horn is horn over bone.
And thank you, Avy--you read my mind! And yes, Faldage, I do have something for you, m'dear...
You don't have too much time on your hands do you? Only when driving! Actually, this came up in a conversation with Hubby over dinner (which was NOT venison).
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Okay, how about this? Antler is bone, solid, deciduous. Horn is cuticular or epidermal, hollow, permanent. To confuse the issue, antlers are sometimes considered to be deciduous horns. A trombone is a metallic, nondeciduous, detached horn. Believe me, you don't get a new one each season.
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I got a new one each season. And after spending a whole semester figuring out where the notes were on the first one. That's why I quit band after freshman year.
I forget, do trombones have a conical bore? If they do you could say they're coniferous.
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A dual-bore horn, with the two slide tubes of different diameters, smaller on the mouthpiece side, larger on the bell side, very roughly approximates a coniferous bore; otherwise, except for the bell, they're cylindriferous.
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a coniferous bore  What an insult!
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What an insult! As intended, Jackie; as intended.
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