Voorbeelden van elk

• Two natural cycles involve the wolf and wild reindeer and the wolf and elk (moose), respectively.

• On these sites isolated human bones, as well as complete human skeletons and complete animal carcasses, usually elk or aurochs, were deposited.

• It was an elk, a coyote, a lynx and a human.

• There were big populations of larger mammals such as elk, deer, bears, wolves and wild boar.

• Two natural cycles involve the wolf and 2 species of deer, the reindeer and the elk (moose), respectively.

• Up to 34 metacestodes occurred in the lungs of individual animals (suggesting a cumulative effect not recorded in wild reindeer, but typical in elk).

• The metacestodes evidently become infective when young elk are about 2 years old.

• Of 188 elk/moose included in the survey, 28 (15 %) were infected, with an intensity of only one to 9 cysts.