Elk
Channel: Beauty of nature
Date: 2022-01-24

Elk is the largest member of the deer family. The height of the moose at the withers is from 1.70 to 2.35 m, the body length reaches 3 m, and the weight, depending on the sex, varies from 300 to 600 or more kilograms.
The head of the animal is large, hook-nosed, with an overhanging fleshy upper lip. Under the throat is a soft leathery outgrowth (“earring”), reaching 25–40 cm.
The length of the tail is 12–13 cm. The coat is coarse, brownish-black, the legs are light gray, almost white. Males have huge (the largest of modern mammals) spade-shaped horns, their span reaches 180 cm, and their weight is 30 kg. Females are smaller than males and hornless.