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Elk Forages for Food
Photo: Male elk, or wapiti, forages for food under a thick blanket of snow
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Common across North America hundreds of years ago, wild populations of elk are now concentrated in the western, mountainous portions of the continent.
Photograph by Norbert Rosing
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