Possible Clues:

• Animal imitates the noise of another, having minimal energy
• Quarter back?
• Animal whose name sounds like a dessert
• Second place, not first, to find ruminant
• It sheds its antlers yearly
• Mariners' antlered mascot
• Runs away from sullen elk
• __ Tracks ice cream
• Largest extant species of deer
• Low sides of savage ungulate