Moose/Moose
Scientific name: Alces alces
Subspecies: Alces a. gigas: Alaska (USA), western Yukon, northern British Columbia (Canada), Alces a. americana: Central Ontario, Newfoundland (Canada), Maine (USA), Alces a. shirasi: Southern Alberta (Canada), Idaho, Wyoming, Montana (USA).
Distribution: see subspecies
Habitat: Open, often already tundra-like landscapes in the north, forests with swamps and lakes further south.
Description: Largest species of deer with a characteristic appearance. Body weight up to 800 kilograms, shoulder height up to 2.30 meters, body length 3.50 meters. Dark black-brown cover, lighter legs, rose bushes of the antlers sit on the side of the skull. Antlers often broadened like a shovel, often divided into front and main shovel, numerous ends on the outer edge of the shovel, strongly overhanging upper lip, deer with a clearly pronounced throat pouch.
Hunting methods: Stalking, call hunting during the rut, raised hide, from horseback.
Hunting Opportunities: Throughout range. No special species protection.
Moose/Mosses (Asia)
Scientific name: Alces alces
Subspecies: The species inhabits the forest and z. T. Northern Hemisphere tundra belt. Of the 8 subspecies described, 4 live in the Holarctic-Asiatic region:
1. European moose (Alces a. alces): West Siberia from the Urals to the Yenisei, (Europe).
2. East Siberian or Yakutian moose (Alces a. pfizenmayeri): From the Yenisei east through East Siberia, south to the Stanovoi Mountains.
3. Kamchatka moose (Alces a. buturlini): Russia: Eastern Eastern Siberia between the Indigirka and Anadyr rivers, Kamchatka. (It has only recently been listed as a separate subspecies and before that belonged to pfizenmayeri).
4. Ussurian elk (Alces a. cameloides): Amur-Ussuri region, northern Mongolia, northern Manchuria, north to Stanovoi Mountains.
Distribution: see subspecies
Habitat: Open, often already tundra-like landscapes in the north, forests with swamps and lakes further south.
Description: Largest species of deer with a characteristic appearance. Body weight up to 800 kilograms, shoulder height up to 2.30 meters, body length 3.50 meters. Dark black-brown cover, lighter legs, rose bushes of the antlers sit on the side of the skull. Antlers often broadened like a shovel, often divided into front and main shovel, numerous ends on the outer edge of the shovel, strongly overhanging upper lip, deer with a clearly pronounced throat pouch. Antler weights up to 42.5 kilograms!
Hunting methods: Stalking, call hunting during the rut, raised hide, from horseback.
Hunting Opportunities: Throughout range.
