0 a large deer with brownish-red fur and large antlers (= horns like branches) that lives in the forests of North America --
Like wapiti, they are predominantly grazers; they feed on a wide range of available plants, especially grasses and sedges, but including some larger plants such as rhododendrons and willows.
Elk (also known as wapiti), mule deer, and pronghorn (also called pronghorn antelope) are some of the most commonly seen large mammals.
Compared with those of wapiti or red deer, the antlers are flattened with the first and second (bez) tines noticeably far apart.
It is a minor forage component for bison, mule deer, and wapiti.
Some areas of the more southern closed boreal forest also have populations of other deer species such as the elk (wapiti) and roe deer.
Manchurian wapiti may retain a few orange spots on the back of their summer coats until they are older.
Male deer are wapiti-like with a neck mane, and as mentioned, relatively small wapiti-like antlers.
Its face resembled that of the modern wapiti.
