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The Siberian wapiti is similar to other subspecies of Cervus canadensis in that the adults have a lighter toned torso with darker necks and juveniles have thicker fur on the body. [ citation needed ] The adult male Altai wapiti has a recorded shoulder height of up to 155 cm (5.1 ft) and a maximum body weight of 300 kg (661.5 lbs), the female ...
The Siberian and North American elk carry the largest antlers while the Altai wapiti has the smallest. [14] Roosevelt bull antlers can weigh 18 kg (40 lb). [ 28 ] The formation and retention of antlers are testosterone -driven. [ 29 ]
Elk, a large deer about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) ... The Siberian tiger is the most prominent species in Primorsky Krai; as of 2015 there were 480 to 540 remaining.
The eastern elk (Cervus canadensis canadensis) is an extinct subspecies or distinct population of elk that inhabited the northern and eastern United States, and southern Canada. The last eastern elk was shot in Pennsylvania on September 1, 1877. [1] [2] The subspecies was declared extinct by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1880. [3]
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The best known Elasmotherium species, E. sibiricum, sometimes called the Siberian unicorn, [4] was among the largest known rhinoceroses, with an estimated body mass of around 4.5 tonnes (9,900 lb), comparable to an elephant, and is often conjectured to have borne a single very large horn. However, no horn has ever been found, and other authors ...
Typical trees are the Siberian pine (Pinus sibirica). At the latitude of the Central Siberian Reserve (60 degrees North), the Siberian pine grows at 100–200 meters in altitude; farther south into Mongolia it is a mountain tree growing at 1,000-2,000 meters. There are stands of larch and other pine in the reserve.
The Barbary stag (Cervus elaphus barbarus), also known as the Atlas deer or African elk, is a subspecies of the red deer that is native to North Africa. It is the only deer known to be native to Africa, aside from Megaceroides algericus , which went extinct approximately 6,000 years ago.