The difference between moose and elk

Moose, tall as a camel, with four long legs like a camel and extremely high shoulders, is named after it. The whole body coat is brown, and the coat color in summer is much darker than that in winter. The head is big, the eyes are small, the face is particularly long, but the neck is very short.

Elk with long horns lose their horns once a year in 65438+February. The female elk has no horns and is smaller. The male horn is forked like a deer, the neck is like a camel, and the tail end has black hair. Elk horns are special in shape and have no eyebrows. The head is big, the snout is long and narrow, the exposed part of the nose is wide, the eyes are small, and the suborbital glands are prominent.

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2. Habitat is different

Moose is a typical coniferous forest animal in the sub-frigid zone. It mainly lives in primitive coniferous forest and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest, and mostly moves in flat low-lying areas and swamps in the forest. It never leaves the forest, but it also changes with the seasons.

Elk, suitable for activities in swamps; A long hairy tail is good for driving away flying insects; Judging from the habit of raising elk in water and mud bath, they once lived in warm and humid land. Such as plains, swamps and waters.

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The history of elk;

According to scientific research, as early as 3000 years ago, there were elk in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in China, which gradually decreased after the Han Dynasty. They have lived in China for millions of years. The unearthed wild elk fossils show that the elk originated more than 2 million years ago and flourished from about 654.38+million years ago to about 3,000 years ago, with the number reaching hundreds of millions.

China is extremely rich in both the number of elk fossil sites and the number of specimens in a fossil site, but it declined rapidly after the Shang and Zhou Dynasties about 3,000 years ago until the wild elk finally disappeared in the early Qing Dynasty.

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