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 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 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 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 ...
Bighorn Sheep are named for the large, curved horns borne by the males, or rams. Females, or ewes, also have horns, but they are short with only a slight curvature. They range in color from light brown to grayish or dark, chocolate brown, with a white rump and lining on ...
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) ...
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 ...
The cougar, also puma, mountain lion, or panther, is a mammal of the Felidae family, native to the Americas. This large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, extending from Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes of South America. An adaptable, ...
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 Dall Sheep (originally Dall's Sheep, sometimes called Thinhorn Sheep), Ovis dalli, is a wild sheep of the mountainous regions of northwest North America, ranging from white to slate brown and having curved yellowish brown horns. There are two putative subspecies: the northern Dall Sheep proper (Ovis dalli dalli) which ...
Both sexes have long curved horns. Muskoxen are usually around 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long and 1.4 m (4.6) high at the shoulder. Adults usually weigh at least 200 kg (440 lb) and can exceed 400 kg (880 lb). Their coat, a mix of black, gray, and brown, includes long ...
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 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 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 ...
Bighorn Sheep are named for the large, curved horns borne by the males, or rams. Females, or ewes, also have horns, but they are short with only a slight curvature. They range in color from light brown to grayish or dark, chocolate brown, with a white rump and lining on ...