Friday, July 31, 2009

What is the only animal born with horns?

The giraffe is the only animal always born with horns. It's hair-covered horn are formed from ossified cartilage called "ossicones" which are part of the skull thus they are born with it. A baby giraffe’s horns lie flat against the skull when it is born and pop upright in a week after birth.It's horn doesn't fall off like that of the deer's.





There are other few animals that are born with horns.Domesticated goats and cows are born with horns however breeding (polled breeds) made some to be born without horn (polled) due to hornless trait (also called the polled trait).

What is the only animal born with horns?
the giraffe, but some goats can also be born with horns too ( this would not be the norm though)
Reply:snails
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Reply:Rhino. i think
Reply:The giraffe is one of the few ruminant Any of various hoofed, even-toed, usually horned mammals such as sheep, goats, deer, and giraffes, characteristically having a stomach divided into four compartments and chewing a cud consisting of regurgitated, partially digested food. born with horns. Both sexes have horns which are covered with skin. The horns of males are thicker and heavier and are used in fights between males.





http://www.honoluluzoo.org/giraffe.htm
Reply:Might be a giraffe, but I think those protuberances on a giraffe's head are not technically HORNS. Can't think of anything else, though.
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Reply:it is a giraffe thanks



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