Close to Home by John McPherson for November 08, 2017

His care will cost him some bucks.

I guess he’s in a rut.

I thought buck fever is what all the retailers have from now until Xmas.

Must have been the buck shots he took.

I just imagined an open-backed hospital gown in Day-Glo Orange.

The wife is Mrs. Rogers.

He’s just horny!

Doctor! His right eye just fluttered. – Oh nothing to worry about, just a deer tick.

That looks more like an enema bag than an IV.

Reported actual horned animals (Wikipedia)

Horned hares were reported in the collection of Emperor Rudolf II.

In the biography of French scientist Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc is related that in 1606 he visited a widow in Leuven who had two living horned hares, said to be from Norway, but that one of them had died before his arrival.1

British naturalist John Ray, in his 1673 “Travels Through the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy and France”, reports that he has seen in Delft, in the museum of apothecary Jean Vander Mere, the “head of a horned hare” (next to things like a tooth of a hippopotamus, although Ray questions the existence of said animal).9

Count Ludwig August Mellin was said to own the antlers of a horned hare, which were reported on and depicted by German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1792 in his Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen (Mammals in Illustrations from Nature with Descriptions).

While hares and rabbits are not rodents, an extinct rodent genus had paired horns above its snout; the Horned gopher Ceratogaulus.

The Iowa reports led cancer researcher Richard E. Shope to investigate, and he discovered the virus in 1933.4 He separated the virus from horny warts on cottontail rabbits, and made one of the first mammalian tumor virus discoveries.4 Shope determined the protrusions were keratinous carcinomas due to the infection of CRPV. Shope’s research led to the development of the first mammalian model of a cancer caused by a virus. He was able to isolate virus particles from tumors on captured animals and use these to inoculate domestic rabbits, which then developed similar tumors.(Wikipedia)

I saw a most handsome young buck along the greenway yesterday as I biked into work. They’re so much more enjoyable alive.

What really goes on at Deer camp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLnmA653f94