The horn is actually very hard, and the meat is wrapped under the horn, just like the nail cover wraps the meat under the nail. Horns can protect the meat inside.
However, horns and antlers are often different. Antlers need to be replaced every year and can grow back. However, the horn has a bone cavity and will not be replaced for life. If the horn is broken, it will not grow back. Basically, there will be a layer like a scar that wraps the meat under the original horn, but the horn will not grow back completely.
Real degeneration of mammals
The epidermis produces horny horns, such as the horny sheath of cattle and sheep and the horny horn of rhinoceros, and the dermis forms bony horns, such as antlers. Mammalian horns are divided into five types: cave horns, solid horns, pronghorn horns, giraffe horns and epidermal horns.
The hole angle consists of bone heart and horny sheath, which is called angle. It is born in pairs on the frontal bone and will not be replaced for life, with a growing trend. The cave angle is unique to cattle.
Solid horn, bifurcated bone horn, no horny sheath. The newborn horn has tender skin on the bone heart, commonly known as velvet antler, such as velvet antler After the horns grow up, the suede gradually ages and falls off, leaving only bifurcated bone horns, such as antlers. Antlers fall off and regenerate periodically every year, which is the characteristic of deer. Except for a few hermaphroditic horned animals, such as reindeer, or hornless animals, such as musk deer and roe deer, generally only males have horns.
Pronghorn horn is a kind of horn between cave horn and antlers. The bone core is not bifurcated, the horn sheath has small forks, and the bifurcated horn sheath has fused hairs. Replace the hairy horn sheath every year after the reproductive period, and the bone core will not fall off. This kind of horn is unique to male pronghorn, while female pronghorn has only a short horn center and no horn sheath.
Giraffe horns are made up of skin and bones, and the skin on the bone heart is almost the same as that on other parts of the body.
Epidermal horn, completely composed of hairy keratin fibers in the cuticle of epidermis, has no bone components and is unique to rhinoceros. The position of the horn is quite special. In the middle of the nasal bone, the two horns of the bipyramidal species are arranged one after the other. The front horn is born in the nose and the back horn is born in the chin.
Cupping tools and methods. In ancient times, cups and cans made of animal horns were used as cupping tools. "Fifty-two Diseases Prescription" contains: "Hemorrhoids are close to the orifice, the big ones are like jujube stones, and the small ones are like jujube stones (stones). The prescription is subject to a small angle, such as which is cooked, open angle, and xx is a small rope. " See cupping therapy strip.