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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.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
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.
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 ...
There are 2 gendered terms for elk in Lakota language - heȟáka - male/buck, with antlers, and uŋpȟáŋ, [3] female, referred to as 'cow' in english. Newborn elk, like deer are spotted as natural camouflage, but spotted (glešká) adult elk are not common, [4] and are referred to in English as piebald.
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]
An Arizona woman died eight days after an elk apparently trampled her outside her home in what is believed to be the state’s first fatal elk attack on a person, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
The name "eland" is Afrikaans for "elk" or "moose", [7] from Dutch eland, from obsolete German Elend, probably from obsolete Lithuanian ellenis. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] When Dutch settlers came to the Cape of Good Hope , creating the Dutch Cape Colony , they named the animal after the large, herbivorous moose .