Moose Female Skull Replica

Description

Moose Female Skull Replica measures 24 inches. The Moose Female Skull Replica is museum quality polyurethane cast. Made in USA. Cast of an original California Academy of Sciences specimen. 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw). Our precise Moose skull can be used as a teaching tool, museum skull exhibit, home décor skull, or office décor skull.

The Moose used in North America or Elk used in Eurasia or Alces alces is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate (open-hand shaped) antlers.

Their fur consist of two layers; top layer of long guard hairs and a soft wooly undercoat. The guard hairs are hollow and filled with air for better insulation, which also helps them stay afloat when swimming.

Both male and female Moose or Alces alces have a dewlap or bell, which is a fold of skin under the chin. The tail is short and vestigial in appearance.

On average, an adult Moose or Alces alces stands 4.6 to 6.9 ft. high at the shoulder. Males normally weigh from 838 to 1,543 lb. and females weigh 441 to 1,080 lb. The head and body length is 7.9 to 10.2 ft., with the vestigial tail adding only a further 2.0–4.7 in.

Moose or Alces alces lack upper front teeth, but have eight sharp incisors on the lower jaw. They also have a tough tongue, lips and gums, which aid in the eating of woody vegetation. They have six pairs of large, flat molars and, ahead of those, six pairs of premolars, to grind up their food.

Moose or Alces alces upper lip is very sensitive, to help distinguish between fresh shoots and harder twigs, and is prehensile, for grasping their food.

Alces alces diet consists of both terrestrial and aquatic vegetation. The most common moose predators are the gray wolf along with bears and humans.

Moose or Alces alces do not form herds and are solitary animals, aside from calves who remain with their mother until the cow begins estrus (typically at 18 months after birth of the calf), at which point the cow chases away young bulls.

Moose Facts:

Scientific Classification: Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Tribe: Alceini
Genus: Alces
Gray, 1821
Species: A. alces
Binomial name: Alces alces
Conservation Status: Least Concern

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