This 1930s silent film captures interactions between a man and an elk, likely in a wildlife setting. The footage includes scenes of the elk grazing, charging at the man, and shedding its antlers. At ...

Elk shed their antlers each year and grow new antlers covered in velvet. Getty With a mature weight of up to 850 pounds, elk are large game animals found in the wild and raised on ranches.

Velvet is all the rage this season — at least for Summit County elk, deer and moose who sport the soft material on their antlers to prepare for the task of finding a potential mate. Late summer ...

Readers came through this weekend and sent a number of photos of Michigan bucks in velvet -- even including a northern Michigan elk in velvet in today's reader-submitted gallery. A buck begins ...

White-tailed bucks scrape and scratch the velvet from their antlers late each summer, in preparation for the fall breeding season, or rut. They do it every year, But if you want to see it, you ...

Not only would the hunter harvest the 175-inch giant, he did it when the buck was shedding his velvet. "He had this one he'd been following since he was 5 1/2 (years old)," said Joe Bumgardner of ...

Not only would the hunter harvest the 175-inch giant, he did it when the buck was shedding his velvet. "He had this one he'd been following since he was 5 1/2 (years old)," said Joe Bumgardner of ...