Known for their long slender legs and branched horn antlers, these cloven-hooved animals live worldwide in forests, wetlands, riversides, and parks. Instead of a hunter, My ASL Dictionary uses another famous character in a deerstalker cap. A second cartoon of Sherlock Holmes shows the ASL hand sign for DEER and MOOSE.
Palms forward, the thumbs of the 5 hands tap the sides of the head, the visual of a deer’s antlers.
The Canadian variant has the thumbs of the 5 hands touching the sides of the temple and then moving forward, like the large protruding antlers on a stag.
For the illustration of MOOSE, the largest form of the Deer species, the 5 hands touch the side of the temple to arc forward and out like its thick giant antlers.
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