The rare moment a reindeer loses its antlers – Watch video from a security camera

The closed-circuit camera in a couple’s house in Alaska captured the “one in a million incident”, which of course was then shared on social media and went viral.

@tyrabogert Replying to @anicole0827 part 2!! #alaska#moose#bullmoose ♬ original sound – Tyra Bogert

Specifically, a reindeer walks along the house, stops, shakes its body, just like a dog does when it wants to dry off from water, and then a sound is heard.

The horns fall from his head.

The animal, apparently startled by the noise and the sense of what has happened to it, then runs away at “lightning speed”.

and the noise of it losing its horns as it sped away.

The video was posted on both Facebook and TikTok with a combined 335,400 views as of Friday morning.

@tyrabogert Moose dropping antlers at my house! #moose#antler#shedding #scaredtheshitoutofhim ♬ original sound – Tyra Bogert

An additional post of the video, on TikTok, later received 18.6 million views and 2.6 million likes.

Reindeer are found in Scandinavia (including Iceland), European Russia, Spitsbergen and elsewhere, northern Russia including Novaya Zemlya, Asian Russia, North America, Greenland, Canada and Alaska.

Domesticated reindeer are found mainly in northern Scandinavia and Russia, and wild reindeer mainly in North America, Greenland and Iceland.

The weight of the female varies between 60 and 170 kg.

In some reindeer subspecies the male is slightly larger. In others, the male can reach up to 300 kg.

Both sexes develop horns, which (for the Scandinavian variety) fall in old males in December, in young males in spring, and in females in summer.

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