Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "A moose is an elk! And an elk is a wapiti. As is the case with many wildlife species in North America, the modern naming of North American cervids is a bit of a mess. “Elk” is actually the English word for Alces alces – what we in North America call “moose.” Prior to colonization, there were five species of cervids (members of the Cervidae or “deer family”) endemic to North America: the moose (Alces alces) with a pre-colonial range similar to its present-day range, th

Lazy Legend on Instagram: "The post shares a 29-second video depicting a bull elk with large antlers approaching and briefly sparring with a herd of bison in an open grassland with coniferous trees, showcasing a tense but non-lethal interspecies encounter. Filmed likely in Yellowstone National Park—home to over 5,000 bison and 10,000 elk—the footage illustrates rare competitive interactions in shared winter ranges, where overlapping foraging areas can spark brief conflicts despite minimal histor