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An Alleged Moose-Wapiti Hybrid in Montana.—California Fish and Game (vol. 17, p. 198; 1931) contains a reference to what is said to be the first known specimen of a ‘moose-elk’ or in our nomenclature a ‘moose-wapiti’ hybrid. Known to the United States forest rangers as “the elk with the funny horns” this curious cross was recently killed in the Deerlodge National Forest, Montana. The rangers had for the past five years known of the animal, which associated and grazed with the wapiti, but the horns and the body of which were half moose and half wapiti. When first seen in 1925 he appeared to be about a three-year-old, and his weight when slain was 1100 pounds. Our impression is that so rare and odd a hybrid deserved a much more detailed obituary notice, since experience shows that there is often the possibility of an abnormal member of one species being regarded as a cross with another.
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Research Items. Nature 128, 676–677 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128676a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128676a0