The White-tailed deer, also known as the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer found throughout most of southern Canada. The species is most common east of the American cordillera, and is absent from much of the western United States, including Nevada, Utah and California (though its close relatives, the mule ...
The Alaska -Yukon moose is the largest moose in North America. There are different types of moose south of the Canadian border. They are called Canada moose or Shiras moose. The trophys in Alaska can have a spread of 60 inches. The normal hunting period is August to December and ...
The American Black Bear is about 1.8 m (6 feet) long. Females weigh between 40 and 180 kg (90 and 400 pounds); males weigh between 68 and 180 kg (150 and 400 pounds). Cubs usually weigh 200 to 450 g (between seven ounces and one pound) at birth. The adult ...
The Gray Wolf's range currently covers most of Canada and Alaska. Historically, wolves occupied grasslands, forests,deserts and tundra. Presently they are mostly restricted to forests, stream side woodlands and Arctic tundra. Most Wolves resemble a long-legged German Shepard dog, with extra large paws and bushy tail. Although typically a gray ...
The Bobcat is a wild cat native to North America. They are found mostly in the United States, southern Canada, and northern Mexico. The bobcat is an adaptable animal that inhabits wooded areas as well as semi-desert, urban, and swampland environments. They live in a set home range which shifts ...
Bison have a shaggy, dark brown winter coat, and a lighter weight, lighter brown summer coat. Bison can reach up to 2 metres (6½ ft) tall, 3 metres (10 ft) long and weigh 900 to 2,000 lbs (400 to 900 kg). The biggest specimens on record have weighed as much ...
The grizzly bear, sometimes called the silvertip bear, is a powerful brownish-yellow bear that lives in the uplands of western North America. It has traditionally been treated as a subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis, of the brown bear living in North America. Grizzly bears reach weights of 180–680 kilograms (400–1,500 pounds) ...
Beavers are semi-aquatic rodents native to North America and Europe. Beavers are best known for their natural trait of building dams in rivers and streams, and building their homes (known as beaver lodges) in the eventual pond. They are the second-largest rodent in the world (after the capybara). Beavers continue ...
The Elk, or Wapiti, belong to the same species of the European Red Deer. There are four subspecies in North America, two which occur in British Columbia- Rocky Mountain Elk of the Rockies and adjacent ranges, and the Roosevelt Elk of the Pacific Northwest coast (Vancouver Island ). Rocky Mountain ...
The Rocky Mountain goat, often called simply mountain goat, is a large hoofed mammal found only in North America. Although it resembles a goat, it is actually more closely related to the antelopes. It resides at high elevations and is a sure-footed climber, often resting on rocky cliffs that predators ...
The Pronghorn is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae, and the fastest mammal in North America running at speeds of 58 mph (90 km/h). The Pronghorn is also known as the Pronghorn antelope, but is not a true antelope. It is a unique animal with no close relatives. ...
The caribou is the North american counterpart of Eurasian reindeer, ranges tundra in summer, winters in forests. It grazes grasses, sedges, and herbs in summer, and mosses, lichens, and fungi in the winter. They can migrate up to 1400 km twice yearly. The caribou in Canada can be divided into ...
Polar bear can be found all along the Northern edge of the Canadian continent, and into the arctic. Some 50 % of the world´s polar bear population is estimated to live in Nunavut. Adult male polar bears weigh from 775 to more than 1,500 pounds (375-750 kg). Females are considerably ...
Walruses (from Dutch: wal meaning "shore", and r(e)us meaning "giant") are large semi-aquatic mammals that live in the cold Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. Two subspecies exist: the Atlantic, Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus, and the Pacific, Odobenus rosmarus divergens. The Pacific walrus is slightly larger, with males weighing up to ...
The Arctic Hare is a hare which is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats. It was once considered a subspecies of the Mountain Hare, but it is now regarded as a separate species.It is distributed over the tundra regions of Greenland and the northernmost parts of Canada as well ...
The White-tailed deer, also known as the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer found throughout most of southern Canada. The species is most common east of the American cordillera, and is absent from much of the western United States, including Nevada, Utah and California (though its close relatives, the mule ...