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This is the beginning of a ten photo series I am calling Boys Will Be Boys. It goes through a progression of photos that show a group of young bull elk sparring with the head bull of the heard, and ends with one of the younger bulls having a funny and embarrassing mishap. Here you see a young bull sparring with the head bull of the heard on a warm, sunny afternoon in Montana's National Bison Range.
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The elk or wapiti is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, in the world, and one of the largest land mammals in North America and Eastern Asia. This animal should not be confused with the still larger moose to which the name "elk" applies in British English and in reference to populations in Eurasia.
Elk range in forest and forest-edge habitat, feeding on grasses, plants, leaves, and bark. Male elk have large antlers which are shed each year. Males also engage in.. more
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