A deer with a single corner like a unicorn is discovered

Among the fantasy creatures that do not exist, the unicorn which features a single corner protruding from the forehead is quite popular. It is written as if it is a book written before the BC, it is said to be a real life, and until the Middle Ages it was deemed to have detoxification effect on its long corner and it was traded at a high price.

In Italy, it seems that a deer with a single corner was found just like its unicorns.

Details are as follows.
'Unicorn' deer is found in Italian nature preserve - Science - MSNBC.com

There is a deer with a strange horn inside the nature reserve of Italy. As one corner grew from the head like a unicorn, it was nicknamed "Unicorn" but its identity is normalNorozka. It seems that he was born at a research center in the town of Prato near Florence, and the brothers of "Unicorn" have two corners, but "Unicorn" seems to have been born with a single horn because of genetic defects.

This is called "Unicorn".


"The birth of this unicorn has shown that there may have been some exceptional animals in the same way in the past," says Gilberto Tozzi, head of the Plato Natural Science Center. There are rare but one deer horns ever before, but cases rarely growing in the middle of the head are particularly rare. According to Fulvio Fratecelli, director of science at the zoo in Rome, "In general, one is on one side of the head rather than the middle," Unicorn "seems to be a complex case somewhat." Fratecelli thinks that one in the middle is due to some trauma while being young.

It is not amusing even if a long time ago wrote the deer where only one horn grew only in the center of the head, "Unicorns were there!"