Hi everyone,
We recently had an amazing experience while hiking in Nuuksio National Park in September.
My fiancée stumbled upon a large, fresh pair of reindeer antlers just lying on the ground!
They're completely intact and in great condition. I'm curious, how rare is it to find something like this in the wild, especially so close to Helsinki?
From what I understand, reindeer are more common up north in Lapland, so this seems pretty unusual.
Thanks in advance!
by bellsrings
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Hmm. Are you aware that we have deers and mooses in Southern FI.
Espoo is not exactly reindeer herding area.
It would be rare indeed to find reindeer antlers in nuuksio.
They are not from reindeer but deer.
Whitetail deer antlers are what I’d guess these to be. Plenty of whitetail deer in the southern parts of Finland, reindeer are very, very rare this far south, as the regions where reindeer are herded are bordered with fences.
That is a deer, give them to me. I love them!
[White tailed deer are very common in nuuksio. They’ve been imported here because… hunting.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer)
[I’d say the antlers match.](https://www.riistainfo.fi/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/17-_dsg9355.jpg)
There’s a lot of deer antlers lying around, but these look especially good.
Am Sámi and grew up around reindeers. These aren’t reindeer antlers, and as others have said, are likely whitetail deer antlers – but are definitely not reindeer antlers.
You have most likely found antlers of about 2.5 to 3.5 years old [whitetail deer](https://www.riistainfo.fi/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/17-_dsg9355.jpg).
… There are no wild reindeers at Southern Finland. Those are deer antlers. Reindeers have way more larger antlers than that. There is Reindeer Park at Nuuksio, but again; They aren’t wild and those are not big enough to be reindeer antlers.
Those are white tail deer
https://preview.redd.it/237dfpey6p1e1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d00b1dd695222a5be817b247b6ddd241e8f1483
”The white-tailed deer arrived in Finland in 1934, when Finns from North America wanted to donate a new game animal to Finland and loaded seven young white-tailed deer, three males and four females, onto the ship.”
https://yle.fi/a/3-10290307
Idk, I’ve found a pair last (or the previous) winter in Porkkala. Made a keyring out of it.
Reindeer antlers from Nuuksio. I say that it’s about 1:1 000 000 000 chance
As a hunter, that’s a pair of whitetail antlers. Cool find nonetheless!
Not a reindeer, deer.
*Take only memories, leave only footprints.*
Taking stuff other than berries and mushroom from a National Park is not ok.
Those look like whitetail deer antlers to me.
I am a reindeer herder, those are deer horns and not reindeer horns
Thank you so much for all the responses! I’ve learned that these are deer antlers, not reindeer antlers—so fascinating!
We’ll definitely cherish this unique find and our trip to Nuuksio even more now. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!
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