Elk - Wikipedia
The elk (pl.: elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.
Elk - Natural Atlas
The name "wapiti" is used in Europe for Cervus canadensis. It originates from the Shawnee and Cree word waapiti, meaning 'white rump'. Elk range in forest and forest-edge habitat, feeding on grasses, plants, leaves, and bark. Male elk have large antlers which they shed each year.
Roosevelt elk - Wikipedia
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]
Elk Population By State (Current Estimates) - Wildlife Informer
2024年1月28日 · The Elk (Cervus canadensis), also known as wapiti, is among the largest land mammals in North America. There are currently four subspecies of elk living in the United States today, with a total population estimated to be between 1 and 1.2 million.
Elk - Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Wapiti range throughout mountainous parts of the state, foraging in meadows and alpine tundra. Wapiti are gregarious animals, sometimes moving in herds of several hundred individuals. Before the arrival of European settlers, wapiti ranged nearly throughout the area that is now Colorado, including the eastern plains.
The Wapiti - ArcGIS StoryMaps
2022年5月16日 · Summer ranges consist of alpine and sub-alpine meadows embedded within spruce-fir and lodge-pole pine forest that are predominately within the Park. Their migrations are relatively safe because most of the routes traverse lands within the National Forest or National Park system (USGS, 2020).
A species account of the Wapiti or Elk (Cervus canadensis)
2023年9月11日 · A species account of Wapiti or Elk (Cervus canadensis) in Texas. This includes a physical description, geographic distribution, a list of subspecies, habitats, population status and conservation status of the species.
Roosevelt elk - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
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 (although by antler size, both the Boone and Crockett (rifle) and Pope and Young (bow) records have Rocky Mountain elk being ...
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WAPITI MAP SHEET AREA, 83L The area covered by the Wapiti map sheet lies just south of Grande Prairie, next to the Alberta-British Columbia boundary and about 250 miles north- west of Edmonton. The area comprises a narrow band of plains in the north, the front ranges of the Rocky Mountains in the southwest, and the Rocky
Geolex — Wapiti publications
2024年4月4日 · Wapiti and Aycross Formations are lateral and time equivalents. The geographic boundary is in the Francs Fork Timber Creek area in the Absaroka Range. Wapiti used to north and Aycross to south. In area of Carter Mountain, Ptarmigan Mountain, and Jim Mountain, Aycross-like beds mapped in Wapiti.