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101 Camping Out Ideas & Activities
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THE ELK AND MOOSE
THE ELK OR WAPITI
Tracks: See those of the deer.
Hoof print: The heavy dotted lines indicate the size of the print, the light dotted lines the extent of the pads. Length—about
31/2, width—about 21/4"-21/2”. Females about ½”-3/4’ smaller. The dewclaws leave no impression when the animal is walking easily. An elk can jump up to 25 feet.
Droppings: Dung-like or disc-shaped masses in hunting season or when stags are in heat.
Acorn form up to 3/4" long, 3/8"-5/8" thick, females 1/4"-3/4” thick. Brown.
Traces of Eating and Scraping: Tree bark pulled off. Peeled spots higher than three feet and with deep tooth marks. Likes to wallow in mud puddles near the "scratching tree" where he rubs himself and where the mud and hairs stick. "Scraping trees," where he beats his antlers first to remove the velvet and later playfully or excitedly when he is in heat, stand along his usual run. The antlers are shed from February to March; the antler scraping time is midsummer. The higher the marks on the tree and the stronger the tree, the larger and more powerful the stag.
Antlers:
  
2-year-old buck : 8-pointer : 12-pointer
THE MOOSE
Tracks: See those of the deer.
Hoof print: Much longer soles than the elk, about half the length of the hoof. The tracks are smaller than those of the elk, but the hoofprint can be almost as large. Does not keep to a single run as much as the elk, but instead roams around more and is less shy than the elk.
Droppings: Dung-like or disc-shaped masses in hunting season or when bulls are in heat.
Acorn form about 1/2"-3/4" long, 3/8" thick. Brown for cows, brown and piled in peaked masses for the bull.
Traces of Eating and Scraping: Sheds antlers later than the elk. Traces of antler scraping similar to those of the elk, but on weaker trees and not as high. The moose does not wallow in the mud and therefore has no trees for scratching. The moose kicks up earth and grass when in heat, but the elk does that all the time. The stamping spots of the moose are much more noticeable, lie closer together, and the ground is completely barren and stamped down solid.
   
1-year-old : 6-pointer :
two with palmated antlers
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