Diceva San Bernardo da Chiaravalle: "troverai più nei boschi che nei libri" .
I libri ci insegnano molto certo, ma la realtà che osserviamo con i nostri occhi ci permette di essere critici su ciò che leggiamo.
I testi dicono fondalmentalmente che:
- I primi Cervi a "gettare" il palco sono quelli più anziani
- Dalle dimensioni delle rose si può capire, a grandi linee, se il soggetto è giovane o maturo.
Ora posto una foto che mostra le rose di due stanghe che ho trovato respectively on Saturday (19/02) and today (26/02):
The bar on the left has a rose considerably larger than the right. The length and weight are very different.
You may also notice the great difference in color: If it were not for the presence of traces of blood on the release area, I found it hard to understand that it was a pole this year that found today!.
The poles of this size and that color (light and very smooth) I have always observed with animals of the second or third head and then found at the end of March to April.
I open a small parenthesis on the color of the shafts.
lighter ones are usually smoother and less porous, the darker ones are more "pearl" and more porous. The color depends on the absorption of blood during the cleaning of the velvet and the juices of the plants that the animal uses to "rub" the front appendix during the cleaning operation. A porous rod has a greater capacity to "absorb". Conifers are low in tannins and give it a lighter color, in contrast to the hardwoods (eg chestnut) have a richer wood tannins.
The two bars I've found a few hundred meters from each other and therefore belong to animals living in the same area.
Taking into account that there are more or less robust animals of the same age, how is it possible that two people like that throw the poles almost simultaneously? An elderly patient may have rose so small? It 's just a matter of weakness?
Now I show two pictures taken by me March 8, 2009:
You can see a person who has just threw a rod, one that has already healed the area of \u200b\u200bseparation (and apparently it seems to me that even the most mature of the group), which has already begun a phase of regrowth and another who still firmly on the stage head (which shows two poles more impressive than the person who has already "thrown" a).
