They're seen mostly in national parks, usually in groups of 25 or more. Elk feed on grasses, herbs, twigs, and bark. They migrate up mountains in the spring and return in the fall.
Males have a high-pitched bugling call.
Elk live 14-25 years. They use the Banff underpasses more often than any other species. Each year, close to five million people travel the Trans-Canada Highway to visit Alberta's Banff National Park. In summer, at least 20,000 vehicles a day clog the road. Throughout the year, unending streams of traffic whiz up and down the high-speed commercial section between Calgary and Vancouver.