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The Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), also known commonly as the Olympic elk and Roosevelt's wapiti, is the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk (Cervus canadensis) in North America by body mass. [2] Mature bulls weigh from 700 to 1,200 lb (320 to 540 kg). with very rare large bulls weighing more. [3]
The Rocky Mountain elk was reintroduced in 1913 to Colorado from Wyoming after the near extinction of the regional herds. While overhunting is a significant contributing factor, the elk's near extinction is mainly attributed to human encroachment and destruction of their natural habitats and migratory corridors.
It was one of the Time magazine Photographs of the Year 2000, and ran in its The Year in Pictures special edition in winter 2000/2001, and the web equivalent. [5] McColgan took the photograph with a Kodak DC280 digital camera [6] while standing on a bridge at Sula, Montana over the East Fork of the Bitterroot River.
A new report from the Pew Charitable Trust shows climate change, along with other human-caused factors, is altering wildlife migration patterns in Idaho and across the West, leading to less ...
Dec. 17—A conservation agreement between one northern New Mexico landowner and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation means that elk and mule deer will be guaranteed 3,537 acres of winter range in ...
Bison in Montana are a controversial topic although they are raised for meat in other parts of Montana and throughout the United States. [60] The idea of free-ranging bison in the area raises concerns about disease with anything from anthrax and mad cow disease to the dreaded bovine brucellosis , competition for forage by elk and deer, public ...
The male elk was admired for its ability to attract mates, and Lakota men will play a courting flute imitating a bugling elk to attract women. Men used elks' antlers as love charms and wore clothes decorated with elk images. [130] The Rocky Mountain elk is the official state animal for Utah. [131]
Video shows the intense moment a pack of wolves chases down a herd of more than 300 elk in Yellowstone National Park. The video follows the elk herd as it races away from wolves trailing behind it.