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Elk

Cervus canadensis

Description:

Beautiful creature with big antlers

Habitat:

Mountain area with lots of trees

Notes:

At our vacation in yellowstone national park we saw lots of these it was so cool

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2 Comments

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 10 years ago

Hello. The elk or wapiti has the scientific name Cervus canadensis. Please add this to your spotting in the space reserved for scientific name since you have already labeled your spotting as an elk. This will then be automatically marked as "identified" in the Project Noah database. Thanks

Coley
Coley 11 years ago

An elk so cool

jwicktor
Spotted by
jwicktor

Wyoming, USA

Spotted on Jul 14, 2012
Submitted on Jul 26, 2012

Spotted for Mission

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