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In Classical Antiquity, the animal was known as ἄλκη álkē in Greek and alces in Latin, words probably borrowed from a Germanic language or another language of northern Europe. A mature male moose is called a bull, a mature female a cow, and an immature moose of either sex a calf.Īccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the etymology of the species is 'of obscure history'. The word 'elk' in North American English refers to a completely different species of deer, Cervus canadensis, also called the wapiti. Their mating season in the autumn features energetic fights between males competing for a female.Īlces alces is called a 'moose' in North American English, but an 'elk' in British English.

Although generally slow-moving and sedentary, moose can become aggressive, and move quickly if angered or startled. Unlike most other deer species, moose do not form herds and are solitary animals, aside from calves who remain with their mother until the cow begins estrus (typically at 18 months after birth of the calf), at which point the cow chases them away. Predators of moose include wolves, bears, humans, wolverines (rarely), and (while swimming in the ocean) orcas. Its diet consists of both terrestrial and aquatic vegetation. Currently, most moose occur in Canada, Alaska, New England (with Maine having the most of the contiguous United States), New York State, Fennoscandia, the Baltic states, Poland, Kazakhstan, and Russia. It has been reintroduced to some of its former habitats. Hunting and other human activities have caused a reduction in the size of the moose's range over time. Moose typically inhabit boreal forests and temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of the Northern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climates.

Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate ('open-hand shaped') antlers most other members of the deer family have antlers with a dendritic ('twig-like') configuration. It is the largest and heaviest extant species of deer. The moose ( PL: moose used in North America) or elk ( PL: elk or elks used in Eurasia) ( Alces alces) is the only species in the genus Alces.

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