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Show The elk was originally named "wapiti" by the Shawnee Indians. It was the English settlers who called the animal elk. A male or bull elk may collect col-lect over 60 cows for his herd. The bull elk will spend much of his time not grazing as many artist's ar-tist's pictures represent this stately animal, but rather traveling at a brisk rate on the perimeter of the herd rounding up stray cows and collecting a few new cows in his exercise program. pro-gram. A bull elk will fight any other male wapiti who tries to take his herd. One fight may be fatal due to the animals physical stature. |