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Here are quick facts about elk in Arizona:

_ Miriam’s elk, the elk subspecies indigenous to Arizona, went extinct in the late 1800s.

_ Rocky Mountain elk, the subspecies found in Arizona today, is indigenous to Yellowstone National Park.

_ An average adult male elk weighs 600 pounds, and is 5 feet tall at the shoulder and 9 feet long.

_ Arizona’s elk population is about 30,000.

_ Elk travel in groups as large as 200.

_ Elk grow new antlers each year; the larger the antlers, the older the animal.