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 usually live 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.