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  2. Elk - Wikipedia

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    Both male and female North American elk grow thin neck manes; females of other subspecies may not. [32]: 37 By early summer, the heavy winter coat has been shed. Elk are known to rub against trees and other objects to help remove hair from their bodies. All elk have small and clearly defined rump patches with short tails.

  3. Rocky Mountain elk - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Roosevelt elk - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. Word from the Smokies: DNA study yields new estimate of ... - AOL

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    The collected elk scat went off to a lab for DNA analysis, which revealed important information about each sample, including which individual elk produced it and whether that elk was male or female.

  6. From extinct to tourism boom: Elk thrive atop reclaimed coal ...

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    Newspaper clippings from 1997 estimated more than 3,000 spectators came to watch a group of five female rocky mountain elk and calves climb over a hill in a single file and disappear into the wild

  7. A lonely bull elk has traveled hundreds of miles across ... - AOL

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    For example, cows, or female elk, weigh 400 to 600 pounds and bulls, males, weigh 500 to 800 pounds, which means they are much larger than deer. ... Elk, a species native to Wisconsin, were ...

  8. White stag - Wikipedia

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    A white stag (or white hind for the female) is a white-colored red deer, elk, sika deer, chital, reindeer, or moose. A white deer from species such as fallow deer, roe deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, or rusa, is instead referred to as a “white buck” or “white doe”.

  9. Spotted Elk - Wikipedia

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    Spotted Elk (Lakota: Uŋpȟáŋ Glešká) was born about 1826, the son of Lakota Sioux chief Lone Horn (Heh-won-ge-chat). His family belonged to the Miniconjou ("Planters by the River") subgroup of the Teton Lakota (Sioux). In 1877, Spotted Elk became the chief of his tribe upon his father's death at the age of 87.