When someone say their is a bull it is a male elk and a cow is a female elk calf is a baby elk and a spike is a yearling bull elk whitch can't be shot because they have to have a chance to grow to their hight. Their size of a Newborn is 35 pounds(16kg) a cow is 500 pounds(225kg) 4 1/2 feet91.3)at the shoulder and 6 1/2 feet(2m) from nose to tail. A bull is 700 pounds(315kg), 5 feet (1.5M) at shoulder, 8 feet(2.4m) from nose to tail.
Their color, body varies from deep copper brown to light tan, Rump patch light beige, and legs and neck often darker than body. their calve are born typically born in late May through early june, the calves are born spotted and scentless, they spend their first few weeks hiding motionless while their mothers feed. Diet-summer grass and forbs, spring and fall-grasses, winter-grasses,shurbs,tree bark and twigs. Elk may supplement their diet at licks, where they take in minerals that may help them grow healthy coats and produce nutritious milk. An elk's stomach has four chambers: the first stores food, and other three digest it.
Antlers- only males have antlers, bulls shed and grow a new set of antlers every year, New antlers are covered in fuzzy skin called velvet, Antlers harden by late summer and the velvet peels away, By september, antlers are solid bone, Aset of antlers on a mature bull can weigh up to 40 pounds. Ivories- An elk's top two canine teeth are called ivories, scientists believe ivories are remnants of saber-like tusks that ancestral species of elk used in combat. Most hunters save ivories as a memento of the hunt.
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| grasses and forbs | grasses | grasses,shrubs,tree bark and twigs |
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