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#..#..#... the deer is a cross between a horse and #....#....
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#....#..#. the horns of a deer is called antlers. .....#....
.#....#..# they have a complex fractal shape, and #.....#...
..#....#.. are believed to enable the deer to ##.....#..
...#....#. "fold" through passages which should be .##.....#.
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#....#.... deer seem to lose this power. .#.##.....
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..#....#.. a deer's heart has two chambers, where #..#.##...
...#....#. it stores all the secrets it might see ##...###..
....#....# during the course of it's life. with ###..#.##.
.....#.... age the secrets will harden into a #.##...###
#.....#... caramellized structure, which will ..###..#.#
##.....#.. eventually block the flow of blood, and ..#.##...#
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