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The male elk was admired for its ability to attract mates, and Lakota men will play a courting flute imitating a bugling elk to attract women. Men used elks' antlers as love charms and wore clothes decorated with elk images. [130] The Rocky Mountain elk is the official state animal for Utah. [131]
An illustration of the three idealized types of curve (logarithmic scale) A survivorship curve is a graph showing the number or proportion of individuals surviving to each age for a given species or group (e.g. males or females).
A cow/calf winter herd is a herd that consists only of female elk and their young. In a normal winter, defined as one where there is a decent amount of snow fall, one study found that when the groups of cows and calves were safe from predation by wolves, about 75.6-83.0% of their diet was made up of graze whereas when wolves were present this number dropped to 61.6-69.4%. [3]
While you won’t find elk in the more southern regions of America there are six states with large, healthy elk populations. Watch this video to learn which states have the most elk!
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.
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The elk were survivors of an original shipment of 20, half of which came from Yellowstone National Park and half from an Indian game reserve in Brookfield, Massachusetts, owned by H.E. Richardson. The latter are believed to be eastern elk captured in northern Minnesota by Native Americans.
Incomes of Native Americans tend to be low, and unemployment rates are usually high. For example, the unemployment rate on the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana has been 69%. This is in comparison to the American national unemployment rate of 6.7% as of 4 April 2014, [13] or even during the worst part of the Great Depression at 25%. [14]