This plain and simple title has been given to one of the finest cave paintings yet discovered. The picture is situated on the wall of a long, narrow corridor in the famous cave of Font-de-Gaume, in southern France. Painted some 18,000 years ago, it shows a male caribou reindeer watching over and protecting a female, about to give birth. A female caribou retains her antlers during pregnancy and until after the offspring is born. This is how nature provides the mother deer with a way to protect her offspring after it is born. This is also why both male and female reindeer have the same antlers.