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Koyukuk Refuge's Three-Day Slough area, part of the 400,000-acre (1,600 km 2) Koyukuk Wilderness, has some of the most productive moose habitat in Alaska. This region has, at times, supported more than 10 moose per square mile. Recent counts indicate that some areas still contain densities of five moose or more per square mile.
The largest Alaska moose was shot in western Yukon in September 1897; it weighed 820 kg (1,808 lb), and was 2.33 m (7.6 ft) tall at the shoulder. [7] While the Alaska moose and the Asian Chukotka moose match the extinct Irish elk in size, they are smaller than Cervalces latifrons, the largest deer of all time. [8]
The Alaska subspecies of moose (Alces alces gigas) is the largest in the world; adult males weigh 1,200 to 1,600 pounds (542–725 kg), and adult females weigh 800 to 1,300 pounds (364–591 kg) [43] Alaska's substantial moose population is controlled by predators such as bears and wolves, which prey mainly on vulnerable calves, as well as by ...
Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial/opossum species in New York. Virginia opossum. Family Didelphidae (American opossums) Subfamily: Didelphinae. Genus ...
Lake Abanakee is located in the town of Indian Lake, about 120 miles northeast of Syracuse. "There's no training manual on how to get a moose out of the ice," Robert Higgins, environmental ...
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Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area (/ ˈ j uː k ɒ n ˈ k aɪ j ə k ə k / YOO-kon KY-yə-kək) is a census area in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census , the population was 5,343, [ 2 ] down from 5,588 in 2010. [ 3 ]
He quickly spotted the moose calf stuck between the floats of the plane and the dock at Beluga Lake in Homer, a Kenai Peninsula community about 220 miles (350 kilometers) south of Anchorage.