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A Guide to Montana Mammals. University of Montana Press. "Northern Rockies Natural History Guide-Mammals". University of Montana’s Division of Biological Sciences. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010; Foresman, Kerry R. (2001). The Wild Mammals of Montana. American Society of Mammalogists. ISBN 1-891276-26-3.
The moose (North America) or common European elk (Europe), Alces alces, is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a "twig-like" configuration.
Surveys in the late 1980s suggested a total park population of fewer than 1000 moose. The moose calf crop has been declining since the fires of 1988. During that summer there was also high predation of moose by grizzly bears in small patches of surviving timber.
Moose populations have increased 50% since 1980 in Wyoming and have been rapidly increasing since the reintroduction into Colorado beginning in 1978 and 1979. [1] Colorado currently has a thriving population of approximately 2,500 moose. [38] However, in Yellowstone National Park, moose have declined from 1,000 animals in the 1970s to 200 in ...
Typically, we refer to Eurasian populations as reindeer while most North American populations are known as caribou. However, the term reindeer is used Deer, elk, moose, and wapiti are also members ...
Additionally, Parks Canada transferred eighteen western moose from Elk Island National Park to Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Highlands National Park between 1947 and 1949 for population increase. Cape Breton Island's moose are descendants of these western moose. [3] [4] They were also introduced to New Zealand's Fiordland National Park. [5]
The 2020 census put Montana's population at 1,084,225. ... A random draw grants a limited number of permits for moose, mountain goats and bighorn sheep.
Relictual populations survived into the early Holocene (until around 3000 years ago) in southern Sweden and the Alps, where the environment remained favorable. [76] Elk were also present in the early Holocene of central Alaska, where it was the main hunted animal along with bison , and survived in Yukon until around 1400 BP (550 AD).