Wapiti
Mammal. Wapiti (WAH-pe-tee) are usually called “elk' in North America.
Wapiti
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(wp´t), large North American deer, Cervus canadensis, closely related to the Old World red deer. It is commonly called elk in America although the name elk is used in Europe to refer to the moose.
Wapiti Member belonging to the deer family, (genus cervus ) they are closely related to the Red deer in the old world .
Wapiti or Elk
Order Artiodactyla : Family Cervidae : Cervus elaphus Erxleben ...
ELK OR WAPITI
Cervus elaphus
Elk, Deer and Moose Family - Cervidae
The name "elk" is a bit confusing because in Europe, moose are called "elk.
Elk (Wapiti)
The elk, also called the red deer or wapiti (meaning "white rump" in the Shawnee language), is a large, hoofed, noisy, and social member of the .
Wapiti Cervus elaphus
Description: Elk or wapiti are the largest deer known to occur in Kansas. Elk are distinguished by: 1) dark brown head and underparts, and maned neck, 2) grayish brown legs, sides and back, ...
Wapiti, American elk
Class: Mammalia
Status: IUCN: Not Listed; CITES: Not Listed;
Wood bison ...
Wapiti (Elk)
Cervus elaphus
Extirpated. Occurred infrequently in western Mass. in colonial times. Last known record, Worcester County, ~1732.
Elk
Wapiti (alternative) . Cervus elaphus (scientific)
Local Native American tribes called them wapiti, but when European explorers came to America, they confused the wapiti with moose and gave them the European name for moose.elk.
The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species of deer in the world and one of the largest land mammals in North America and eastern Asia.
The Elk or Wapiti is the second largest member of the Deer Family, exceeded in size only be the Moose. Mature males (stags) weigh an average of 315 (265-500) kg or 700 (590-1120) pounds. The females, known as hinds, average 225 kg or 495 pounds.
Also called "Wapiti". Classified as "Cervus elaphus" Similar species: Moose, Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, and Woodland Caribou Reindeer).
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In the winter, wapiti reconvene into larger herds, though males and females typically remain separate.
OTHER NAMES: Wapiti, North American Elk
DESCRIPTION: Elk (Cervus elaphus) are one of five species of deer in the Family Cervidae currently found in North America.
Boulder darter (Etheostoma wapiti)
Brighteye darter (Etheostoma lynceum)
Brook darter (Etheostoma burri)
Brown darter (Etheostoma edwini)
Buffalo darter (Etheostoma bison)
Candy darter (Etheostoma osburni)
Carolina darter (Etheostoma collis) ...
puda Southern pudu Rangifer Rangifer tarandus Caribou, reindeer Subfamily Cervinae Axis Axis axis Axis deer, Chital Axis calamianensis Calamian deer Axis kuhlii Bawean deer, Kuhl's deer Axis porcinus Hog deer Cervus Cervus elaphus Red deer, wapiti, ...
ABBREVIATION : CECA COMMON NAMES : elk wapiti Canadian elk eastern elk Roosevelt elk Merriam elk tule elk Manitoban elk Rocky Mountain elk TAXONOMY : The currently accepted scientific name for the elk is Cervus canadensis [53].
Wapiti, on the other hand, show a marked tendency to the flattening of the antlers, with a great development of the fourth tine, which is larger than all the others, and the whole of the tines above this in the same plane, or nearly so, ...
The term wapiti applies to the North American elk and to the wapiti-like red deer subspecies in Eastern Asia where the males resemble the North American elk in their antler structure and mating calls.
Often referred to by its Shawnee name wapiti (which means "white-rump"), this deer is second only to moose as the largest deer in North America.
Carnivorous; primarily prey on large mammals such as deer, wapiti, moose, caribou, bison, muskox, and mountain sheep. Smallest prey taken consistently is beaver. An adult can consume as much as 9 kg (20 lb.) in one feeding.
GESTATION:
62-63 days ...
Recent DNA evidence indicates that the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) and the East Asian and North American Elk (Wapiti) (Cervus canadensis) represent two distinct species. They also hint at an additional primordial subgroup of Central Asian Red Deer.
Elk (Cervus elaphus)
Also know as red deer or wapiti
Species Code: CEEL ...
"Sur plusieurs animaux de l'Amérique septentrionale, et entre autres sur la Rupicapra americana, l'Antilope americana, le Cervus major ou Wapiti, etc.", in Journal de physique, de chimie et d'histoire naturelle et des arts, Tome 87, p. 152.
Deer are mammals that belong to the family Cervidae. There are many species in the deer family, including various types of deer, moose, elk (wapiti), caribou, and reindeer. Some deer species are social, but others are solitary.
Boulder darter (Etheostoma wapiti)
Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae)
Yellowcheek darter (Etheostoma moorei)
Finescale saddled darter (Etheostoma osburni)
Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini)
Fountain darter (Etheostoma fonticola) ...
red-stag
the Central European red-stag reaches a withers-height of 125 cm and a weight of 250 kg. Other subtypes become considerably bigger, wapiti: Withers-he...
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was given to the second largest member of the deer family by early explorers because they resembled the elk or moose of Europe. Because the American elk is not very closely related biologically to the European elk, the American Indian term "Wapiti" ...
In Europe the moose is called an elk and our elk are considered the North American representative of the European red deer. The American elk is more correctly known by its Shawnee Indian name "Wapiti", or white rump.
 See also: Deer, Elk, Red Deer, Moose, American elk
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