Animals / Mammal

Moose

Alces alces · Cervidae

The moose or elk is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only extant species in the genus Alces. It is also the tallest, and the second-largest, land animal in North America, falling short only to the American bison in body mass. Most adult male moose have broad, palmate antlers; other members of the deer family have pointed antlers with a dendritic ("twig-like") configuration.

Where the Moose lives

Recorded in Estonia, Norway, Sweden, United States of America, Canada, Russia, Finland and Poland (Europe and North America).

Most records fall in Norrbotten, Colorado, British Columbia, Alaska, Ontario and Kronoberg.

See the Moose’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 143,457 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.