Did You Hear The One About The Hermaphrodite Deer?

Seven guys, who have been hunting together for 25 years, go into the woods to hunt deer. Somewhere in a cattail slough they see one with a 4-by-4 rack. One guy takes a single shot and the deer drops. He thought he got a nice buck.

He was wrong. Sort of.

“It’s got no male utilities,” says the shooter Carmen Erickson, “it has teats…it was pretty unusual.”

He called the state Game and Fish Department and later received a message from a biologist saying that deer like his are often bucks whose testicles haven’t dropped for some reason or have been castrated.

Carmen Erickson disagrees, “We couldn’t find any male genitals on the deer.”

“We turned it over, and I got a lot of heat over that. Like I was supposed to know.” He laughs.

A game warden in the area says that he’s seen a few antlered does over the years, but never one this developed.

“It definitely was a keeper,” says Carmen Erickson.

A hermaphrodite is an organism having both male and female reproductive organs. In many species, hermaphroditism is a common part of the life-cycle, enabling a form of sexual reproduction in which the two sexes are not separated into distinct male and female types of individual. Hermaphroditism most commonly occurs in invertebrates, although it is also found in some fish, and to a lesser degree in other vertebrates. Wikipedia

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