Moose

Moose Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent[1][2]
Male (bull)
Female (cow)
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[3]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae
Genus:	Alces Gray, 1821
Species:	A. alces
Binomial name
Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758)
Moose range map
Synonyms
Cervus alces Linnaeus, 1758

A moose (Alces alces; called elk in Europe) is a large deer. Some authorities put the American moose in a different species, Alces americanus.

A male moose is called a bull, a female moose is called a cow, and a young moose is called a calf. A group of moose is called a herd. The plural form of moose is "moose”.^[4]

Moose live in northern Europe, Asia, and in North America. Moose live mainly in the taiga forest, especially in areas with lakes, marshes and swamps. They also live in mountain ranges.

1. ↑ "I giacimenti quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia nord-orientale". Memorie di Scienze Geologiche. 43. January 1991.
2. ↑ "Alces alces Linnaeus 1758 (moose)". PBDB. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04.
3. ↑ Hundertmark, K. (2016). "Alces alces". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T56003281A22157381. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T56003281A22157381.en.
4. ↑ "moose Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved 2017-03-15.