Moose Appear as May Animals on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023

Summary: Moose appear as May animals on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023, whereby the National Audubon Society attends to Arctic, near-Arctic wild North America.

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"Cervus Alces, Linn. Moose Deer. Old Male, & Young," Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon; Lith'd Print'd & Col'd by J.T. Bowen, Philad'a 1845; John James Audubon, The viviparous quadrupeds of North American, vol. II (1846), No. 19, Plate LXXVI: No copyright (Public Domain Mark 1.0), via University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

Moose appear as May animals on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023, whereby the National Audubon Society attends to Arctic, near-Arctic wild North America, and also in the Baltic, Russian and Scandinavian countries.

The Artiodactyla (from Greek ἄρτιος, “even” and δάκτυλος, “finger, toe”) even-toed ungulate order member breeds from end August through mid-October and births from mid-April through mid-July. The Cervidae (from Latin cervus, “deer, stag” and Greek -ειδής, “resembling” via Latin -idæ) elk, moose, muntjac, reindeer, true deer family member chooses early-succession evergreen forests. The Capriolinae (from Latin capr-, “male goat” and -īnus, “of” via Latin caprīnus) moose, New World, roe, telemetacarpal, reindeer subfamily member desires boreal wetlands and tundra.

The Alceini (from Latin alcēs, “elk [Alces alces], moose [Alces americanus]”; -īnus, “of”) deer tribe member elects mature and young, coniferous, mixed coniferous-deciduous, mixed mature-young forests.

Moose bulls and cows appreciate 1.38- to 35.52-square-mile (3.6- to 92-square-kilometer) summer and winter home ranges, 18 to 24 miles (28.97 to 38.62 kilometers) apart from one another. They are adept at respective galloping, swimming and trotting or walking speeds of 30, 6 and 9.3 miles (48.28, 9.66 and 14.97 kilometers) per hour; Sunday, Sep. 30, 2007, 01:26, image of "bull and cow moose during a light rainshower in Alaska" by Ryan Hagerty/USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service): Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library

Eurasian moose, fathomed taxonomically by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), feature Alces alces alces, Alces alces burturlini, Alces alces cameloides, Alces alces pfizenmayeri subspecies.

Alaska; and northeastern, mid-northwestern and northwestern, northwestern North America respectively guard Alces alces gigas, Alces alces americana, Alces alces andersoni and Alces alces shirasi moose subspecies. Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming have year-round moose populations. Moose populations ignore archipelagic Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon.

Moose, as May animals on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023, journey through 27-year life expectancies, from 231-day gestations, through 5-month nursings, to 16- to 60-month maturations.

Moose cows arrange all care and meal activities for their one calf, or for their occasional twins or for their rare triplets, from the latter's spring births through their five-month nursing and 16- to 60-month-long maturations. Browsing activities from 5 months onward assemble such edibles as lotus, marsh marigolds, pond lily, pondweed and water shield summer through fall and aspen, birch, cedar, dogwood, fir, maple, pine, poplar and willow bark, buds and twigs during winter months; Thursday, May 30, 2022, 14:34, image of two newborn, nursing moose (Alces alces), Homer, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Southcentral Alaska: Beeblebrox, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Maternal gestations and nursing kindle single, sometimes twin, rarely triple births of brown-red, 20- to 35-, 35-plus-pound (9.07- to 15.88-kilogram), 2-, 2-plus-foot- (0.61-meter-) tall, unspotted calves.

Mature moose look black-brown-red-coated; hairy-muzzled; huge-headed; large- and narrow-hooved; large- and oval-eared; long-dewclawed; long- and pale-legged; short- and thick-necked; short-bodied; short-tailed; slope-rumped; square-lipped; white-bellied; and wither-humped. Left-jaw, right-jaw, 32-tooth dentitions of 0 upper/3 lower incisors, 0 upper/1 lower canine, 3 upper/3 lower premolars and 3 upper/3 lower molars mandate non-woody-, woody-plant nutrition. Moose need aquatic and deciduous foliage summers and aspen (Populus tremuloides), birch (Betula papyrifera), fir (Abies balsamea), pine (Pinus silvestris), willow (Salix) stems and twigs winters.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 offers moose as May animals with parenting schedules and with regrowing schedules regarding near-4-foot- to near-5-foot- (near-1.22- to near-1.52-meter-) long antlers.

Author Len McDouglas asserts a 0.5- to 2-quart (0.47- to 1.89-liter) amount as the average moose scat deposit. He assesses a liquid or massed or toadstool-like appearance to summer 2- to 3-inch (5.08- to 7.62-centimeter) diameter droppings and 1- to 2-inch- (2.54- to 5.08-centimeter-) long, 0.5- to 1-inch (1.27- to 2.54-centimeter) diameter pellets to winter droppings. He assigns aquatic vegetation as causal agent of summer appearances and shrub and tree bark and twigs as causal agents of winter appearances; "Moose scat is commmonly found on trails. Some souvenir shops sell bags of it, sealed with shellac and labeled with humorous names"; Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2002, 12:00, image of moose (Alces alces) scat in snow in Alaska: Beeblebrox, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Physically and sexually mature moose present 5- to 6.5-foot (1.52- to 1.98-meter) heights from their 5- to 7-plus-inch- (12.7- to 17.78-centimeter-) long hooves to their shoulders.

Mature females quarter 6.5- to 8.5-foot- (1.98- to 2.59-meter-) long, 727- to 1,873-pound (369.76- to 849.58-kilogram) bodies with 2- to 4.7-inch- (5.08- to 11.94-centimeter-) long tails. Mature males reveal 7.5- to 9.2-foot- (2.29- to 2.4-meter-) long, 849- to 1,800-pound (385.1- to 916.47-kilogram) bodies with 2- to 4.7-inch- (5.08- to 11.94-centimeter-) long tails. Moose bulls, calves and cows sound such respective vocalizations as barks, bellows, croaks, grunts, snorts and whines; bleats, cries and whines; and coughs, grunts and moans

Predatory black and brown bears, cougars, coyotes, orca whales, people, wolverines and wolves terminate or trouble moose as May animals on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023.

Eurasian biogeographies associate Alces alces alces moose subspecies to Europe eastward from Norway and Sweden and from Poland and Moldava through Kazakhstan and Russia and into Mongolia; Alces alces pfizenmayeri subspecies to Russia; Alces alces burturlini subspecies to Russia; and Alces alces cameloides subspecies to China and Russia. North American biogeographies attribute Alces alces gigas subspecies to Alaska and Yukon Territory; Alces alces andersoni to Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory and to Minnesota and Wisconsin; Alces alces shirasi to Alberta and British Columbia and to Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming; and Alces alces americana to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec and to Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont; Monday, Jan. 22, 2007, map of moose distribution range: Jürgen Gbruiker (Jrockley), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

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Image credits:

"Cervus Alces, Linn. Moose Deer. Old Male, & Young," Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon; Lith'd Print'd & Col'd by J.T. Bowen, Philad'a 1845; John James Audubon, The viviparous quadrupeds of North American, vol. II (1846), No. 19, Plate LXXVI: No copyright (Public Domain Mark 1.0), via University of Michigan Library Digital Collections @ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclaudubon/x-B6719890/29376_0022; Public Domain, via The New York Public Library Digital Collections @ https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-783e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Moose bulls and cows appreciate 1.38- to 35.52-square-mile (3.6- to 92-square-kilometer) summer and winter home ranges, 18 to 24 miles (28.97 to 38.62 kilometers) apart from one another. They are adept at respective galloping, swimming and trotting or walking speeds of 30, 6 and 9.3 miles (48.28, 9.66 and 14.97 kilometers) per hour; Sunday, Sep. 30, 2007, 01:26, image of "bull and cow moose during a light rainshower in Alaska" by Ryan Hagerty/USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service): Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library @ https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/13581/rec/43; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaskan_moose_pair_(6862339335).jpg; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (USFWS Headquarters), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/6862339335/

Moose cows arrange all care and meal activities for their one calf, or for their occasional twins or for their rare triplets, from the latter's spring births through their five-month nursing and 16- to 60-month-long maturations. Browsing activities from 5 months onward assemble such edibles as lotus, marsh marigolds, pond lily, pondweed and water shield summer through fall and aspen, birch, cedar, dogwood, fir, maple, pine, poplar and willow bark, buds and twigs during winter months; Thursday, May 30, 2022, 14:34, image of two newborn, nursing moose (Alces alces), Homer, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Southcentral Alaska: Beeblebrox, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moose_calves_nursing.jpg

Author Len McDouglas asserts a 0.5- to 2-quart (0.47- to 1.89-liter) amount as the average moose scat deposit. He assesses a liquid or massed or toadstool-like appearance to summer 2- to 3-inch (5.08- to 7.62-centimeter) diameter droppings and 1- to 2-inch- (2.54- to 5.08-centimeter-) long, 0.5- to 1-inch (1.27- to 2.54-centimeter) diameter pellets to winter droppings. He assigns aquatic vegetation as causal agent of summer appearances and shrub and tree bark and twigs as causal agents of winter appearances; "Moose scat is commmonly found on trails. Some souvenir shops sell bags of it, sealed with shellac and labeled with humorous names"; Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2002, 12:00, image of moose (Alces alces) scat in snow in Alaska: Beeblebrox, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snowpoop.JPG

Eurasian biogeographies associate Alces alces alces moose subspecies to Europe eastward from Norway and Sweden and from Poland and Moldava through Kazakhstan and Russia and into Mongolia; Alces alces pfizenmayeri subspecies to Russia; Alces alces burturlini subspecies to Russia; and Alces alces cameloides subspecies to China and Russia. North American biogeographies attribute Alces alces gigas subspecies to Alaska and Yukon Territory; Alces alces andersoni to Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory and to Minnesota and Wisconsin; Alces alces shirasi to Alberta and British Columbia and to Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming; and Alces alces americana to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec and to Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont; Monday, Jan. 22, 2007, map of moose distribution range: Jürgen Gbruiker (Jrockley), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moose_distribution.png

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