Unlike their male counterparts, female southern semi-miniature banded flamethrowing swamp deer, unofficially known as does or more frequently vixenschnoodle-tootlets, are not at all seclusive but instead very gregarious, loud, and sociable. They also do initially have antlers upon their heads. But they fall off within an hour of the animal's birth. Afterwards, they grow small, somewhat rudimentary but nevertheless functional copper switchblades down their backs annually, starting when they are two or three hours old. The switchblades, which maybe up to eight-inches long and 100+ in number, are shed each winter, and come spring two new knife sprouts may grow from the stumps, thus the numbers of blades increase exponentially for the animals life, which may extend over five years.