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Alces alces (moose)

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Infraspecies

Alces alces alces
Alces alces caucasicus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.6
EDGE Score: 2.45
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Attributes

Gestation [2]  8 months 3 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  27 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  9.906 feet (302 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Weaning [2]  3 months 10 days
Adult Weight [2]  850.989 lbs (386.00 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  28.316 lbs (12.844 kg)
Male Weight [4]  1,739.456 lbs (789.00 kg)
Diet [3]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [3]  100 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  2 years
Male Maturity [2]  1 year 8 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Emblem of

Alaska
Maine
Norway

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Making The Forest And Tundra Wildlife Connection
♦ 6Exploring the Denali Food Web, ParkWise, National Park Service
♦ 7National Geographic Magazine - May 2016 - Yellowstone - The Carnivore Comeback
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0