#Rocky mountain animals

[ofhoovesandheart]

sand wash basin mustangs 🦂

[doglover43]

coyotes are so so under appreciated!!!!!! look at how awesome and cool they are!!!!!!! they are not second class canines!!!!!

[irishrebelvoice]

Top 5 Most Dangerous River Moments - Natural World

A scary look at just how dangerous some rivers can be.

A river runs through it, over it, under it and around it. They’re tenacious. They bring us life, excitement, and video. In this short piece, we see the dangers that rivers can provide. The action revolves around some of the wildlife that can be found lurking on or nearby them. We’re not talking Irish rivers here, folks. The most dangerous beast you will encounter on the rivers of Ireland is an…

[muckyschmuck]

damn i should’ve titled this why is every state animal a whitetail deer?…… (the things innards are under the cut )

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Bison graze in the snow at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, near Denver.

© Michael Levine-Clark / Flickr

[homeisaplaceinthehills]

Patrick

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Proud mom and her baby - Wild Horses by Georgie Alexon Via Flickr: I have had the pleasure to see the wild horse mares with their baby's the last few years. This was the first time I found this particular pack of horses with the white mare who I had heard so much about. This photo was taken in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains west of Sundre Alberta, Canada. DNA studies conducted by both the University of Calgary and University of Texas show that our Alberta wild horses are indeed genetically unique. They have DNA related to the draft horse, Indigenous ponies and the original Spanish horse. -Equus ferus

[podartists]

Mountain goats | Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

[mindblowingfactz]

In 1875 a swarm of 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locusts covering 198,000 square miles and weighing 27.5 million tons descended upon the Great Plains, devouring all plant life in their path. Farmers that tied to shoo them away had the clothes eaten right off their bodies. [1, 2, 3]

[spiritofthemountainnaturephoto]

Mess with the bull get the antlers 🦌

[long-lost-soul]

my favorite wildlife sightings from recently :]

[shutterandsentence]

"The Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made."

--Psalm 145:9

Photo: Estes Park, Colorado

[doglover43]

the coyotes of the rockies 🐾🏔️

[ambermaitrejean]

Scorchin' on the plains. August in Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Commerce City, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

[rabbitcruiser]

Jasper National Park, AB (No. 21)

The Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) is a subspecies of elk found in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent ranges of Western North America.

The winter ranges are most common in open forests and floodplain marshes in the lower elevations. In the summer it migrates to the subalpine forests and alpine basins. Elk have a diverse habitat range that they can reside in but are most often found in forest and forest edge habitat and in mountain regions they often stay in higher elevations during warmer months and migrate down lower in the winter. They may even come down the mountain and leave the forest into some grassland for part of the day but head back into the timber in the evening.

Climate change/warming can keep elk in their higher elevation habitats for longer into the winter than normal. Climate changes such as warming have in some cases even increased the seasonal range of elk in the winter. For example, in Yellowstone the climate warming has kept the snow at a lower level than in the past and has given the elk the ability to populate higher ranges than before. The lack of snow in Yellowstone has also given the elk an advantage over the wolves in their predator prey relationship because wolves rely on deep snow to hunt elk in winter ranges of Yellowstone. The total wild population is about one million individuals.

Their populated Canadian ranges occur in Alberta's Jasper and Banff National Parks as well as British Columbia's Kootenay and Yoho National Parks.

Source: Wikipedia

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Rocky Mountain Goat Kids

By Mark Van Liere

NBP International Awards