Deer: Moose, Reindeer, Pud , Elk, Red Deer, Pampas Deer, Migratory Woodland Caribou, Visayan Spotted Deer, Roe Deer, Deer-Ve

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Moose, Reindeer, Pudu, Pampas deer, Mule deer, Roe Deer, Deer-vehicle collisions, Key Deer, South Andean Deer, Tufted deer, Palaeomerycidae, Deer penis, Tree stand, California Mule Deer, Black-tailed Deer, Marsh Deer, Hilton Head White-tailed deer, Moose milk, Muntjac, Seneca White Deer, Sitka Deer, Columbian White-tailed Deer, Hippocamelus, Hart, Siberian Roe Deer, Taruca, Deer farm, Capreolinae, Odocoileus, Cedros Island Mule Deer, Quang khem, Deer of Great Britain, Capreolus. Excerpt: The moose (North America) or Eurasian 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 dendritic (twig-like) configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal and mixed deciduous forests of the Northern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climates. Moose skullThe animal bearing the scientific name Alces alces is known in Britain as the elk, and in North America as the moose. The British English word elk has cognates in other Indo-European languages, for example elg in Norwegian, alg in Swedish, Elch in German and o in Polish. Confusingly, the word elk is used in North America to refer to a different animal, Cervus canadensis, also known as the wapiti which is similar though slightly smaller (the wapiti is the second largest deer species), and behaviorally divergent from the smaller red deer of central and western Europe. Presumably early European explorers in North America called it elk because of its size and presumably because, as men coming from the British Isles they would have had no opportunity to see the difference between a member of the genus Cervus and an animal fitting the description of Alces at home, where the latter was nowhere present in the 17th and 18th century. The word moose is ...