stackyFACTSImagine carrying a 40-pound bone chandelier on your forehead for months, only to get sick of it and pop it off. Every single winter, male moose experience a drop in testosterone that causes the bone at the base of their antlers to completely weaken, dropping them onto the snowy forest floor.
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