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Eastern moose are the third largest subspecies of moose only behind the western moose and the Alaska moose. Males stand on average 1.7–2.0 m (5.6–6.6 ft) at the shoulder and weigh up to 634 kg (1,398 lb). Females stand on average 1.7 m (5.6 ft) at the shoulder and weigh on average 270–360 kg (600–790 lb). Eastern moose antlers have an ...
A member of this family is called a deer or a cervid. They are widespread throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes. Cervids range in size from the 60 cm (24 in) long and 32 cm (13 in) tall pudú to the 3.4 m (11.2 ft) long and 3.4 m (11.2 ft) tall moose.
Genus Bassaricyon – Allen, 1876 – four species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Eastern lowland olingo. B. alleni Thomas, 1880: Northwest South America: Size: 30–46 cm (12–18 in) long, plus 40–53 cm (16–21 in) tail [2] Habitat: Forest [5]
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.
Articles relating to the moose, (Alces alces), a member of the Capreolinae and the largest and heaviest extant species in the Cervidae.Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate ("open-hand shaped") antlers; most other members of the deer family have antlers with a dendritic ("twig-like") configuration.
The Alaskan 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) [17] Alaska's substantial moose population is controlled by predators such as bears and wolves, which prey mainly on vulnerable calves, as well as by ...
Dermacentor albipictus, the winter tick, is a species of hard tick that parasitizes many different mammal species in North America.It is commonly associated with cervid species such as elk (Cervus canadensis), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), mule deer (O. hemionus) and caribou (Rangifer tarandus) but is primarily known as a serious pest of moose (Alces alces).
Alces is a genus of artiodactyl mammals, that includes the largest species of the deer family. [1] There are two species in genus: the moose ( Alces alces ) and the fossil Alces gallicus (also known as the Gallic moose), that existed in the Pleistocene about 2 million years ago.