In regard to “The ethics of shed-hunting”: Rodents and other animals consume shed antlers and bone as a valuable source of calcium and other nutrients, especially in arid and semi-arid environments. Once collecting becomes an industry, it is certainly bound to have a negative impact, much like wild gingko collecting in the Eastern U.S.
—Craig Keyzer, via email
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Antlers as calcium.
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