what is the differences between a moose and a caribu?
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Moose\n\nThe MOOSE is the world's largest member of the deer family. Moose are generally associated with northern forests in North America, Europe, and Russia. In Europe they are called "elk". Moose are long-legged and heavy bodied with a drooping nose, a "bell" or dewlap under the chin, and a small tail. Their colour ranges from golden brown to almost black, depending on the season and the age of the animal. The hair of newborn calves is generally red-brown and they usually weigh around 28 to 35 pounds. Within five months the calves grow to over 300 pounds. Males in prime condition weigh from 1,200 to 1,600 pounds and adult female can weigh from 800 to 1,300 pounds. Only the bulls have antlers.  The largest moose antlers in North America come from Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and the Northwest Territories of Canada. In the wild, moose rarely live more than 16 years.    \n\n   Cow moose generally breed at 28 months and the calves are born any time from May to early June after a gestation period of about 230 days. Cows give birth to twins 15 to 75 percent of the time, and triplets may occur once in every 1,000 births.  The calves are weaned in the fall time when the mother is breeding again. The maternal bond is generally maintained until calves are 12 months old at which time the mother aggressively chases her offspring from the immediate area just before she gives birth.  Moose breed in the fall with the peak of the "rut' activities coming in late September and early October. Adult males joust during the rut by bringing their antlers together and pushing. Serious battles are rare although a few occasionally die from their wounds. The winner usually mates with the female.\n\n    During the fall and winter, moose consume large quantities of willow, birch, and aspen twigs. Spring is the time of grazing as well as browsing. Moose eat a variety of foods, particularly sedges, horsetail, pond weeds, and grasses. During the summer, moose feed on vegetation in shallow ponds, forbs, and the leaves of birch, willow, and aspen.\n\n   Moose are killed by wolves and black and brown bears. Black bears take moose calves in May and June and brown bears kill calves and adults the entire time the bears are out of their winter dens. Wolves kill moose throughout the entire year. Moose are also a very popular animal for people to hunt, which is another way that limits the growth of the moose population.\n\nMan's removal of mature timber through logging and careless use of fire has, in general, benefited moose as new stands of young timber have created vast areas of high-quality moose food. The future for moose is reasonably bright because man is learning how to manipulate habitat with wildfire and is becoming more skilled at managing factors that limit moose populations, such as predation and hunting. \n\nCaribou\n\nThe CARIBOU live in the artic tundra, mountain tundra, and northern forests of North America, Russia, and Scandinavia. The world population is only about 5 million. In Europe caribou are called reindeer, but in Alaska and Canada only the domestic forms are called reindeer. All caribou and reindeer throughout the world are considered to be the same species, but there are 7 subspecies: Barrenground, Svalbard, European, Finnish forest reindeer, Greenland, Woodland, and Peary. Alaska has only the barren-ground subspecies, but in Canada the barren-ground, Woodland, and Peary subspecies are found. The caribou found on the Slate Islands in Terrace Bay, are Woodland caribou.\n\n    Caribou have large, concave hoofs that spread widely to support the animal in snow and soft tundra. The feet also function as paddles when caribou swim. Caribou are the only member of the deer family in which both sexes grow antlers. Antlers of adult bulls are large and massive; those of adult cows are much shorter and are usually more slender and irregular. In late fall , caribou are clove-brown with a white neck, rump, and feet
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what is the difference between the two
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A grizzly can be many shades. Depends on their diet and how much fish or fat they eat. Kodiak grizzlies look a lot different than regular brown bears. \n\nAnother one that looks grey but is not considered that color is the blue bear in the himilayas. \n\nYou also have to remember that Koala bears are primarily grey. \n\nIf you need more info...email me at \n\naarondarling@yahoo.com
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It's called a "Moose Knuckle".
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Is this a trick question regarding the difference between hair and fur?  In that case, no - not all mammals have hair - some have fur, like a mink.  Cows have hair.  Humans have hair.  The difference between hair  and fur is hair is hollow. Fur is solid and denser.  However, fur is also defined as a type of hair.  Oh - and yes - all mammals are fuzzy at one point in their life.
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It's required to play those reindeer games...\n\nOnly caribou (aka reindeer) females grow antlers.
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These are general differences between monkeys and apes: \n\n1. apes have no tails\n2. apes have larger bodies and relatively larger brains \n3. apes have mobile, rotary shoulder joint which allows them to swing and hang from their arms (monkeys are quadrupeds that jump and run along the tops of branches or on the ground)\n 4. apes have wider torso and shorter, stiffer lumbar region
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They are largely nomadic and have to adapt to meet their harsh environment. They are often herders whether it is reindeer or camels.
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Second only to polar bears, brown bears are the largest land carnivores. A subspecies called the Kodiak bear is particularly impressive, and can reach similar sizes to its polar cousin. \n\nStatistics\nBody length: 180-210cm, Weight: males: 135-390kg, females: 95-205kg.\n\n\nThey typically have brown fur, but this can vary from cream to almost black. Grizzly bears (U.a.horribilis) have long white-tipped hairs along the shoulders and back, which give the bear a grizzled appearance. They have a hump on their shoulders, a concave face and long, curved claws.
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There are three obvious differences:\n1.Apes are larger than monkeys\n2.Monkey's have tails, apes don't\n3.Apes are smarter than monkeys
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The Arctic and Antarctic are literally poles apart. While they share some characteristics, such as high latitude, cold and remoteness, they also exhibit significant differences. The Arctic is dominated by a large deep central ocean surrounded by land masses. The Antarctic is a large, partially ice-covered land mass surrounded by ocean. \n\nEnvironmental Differences: \nThe Arctic has trees but Antarctic does not\nAntarctica is a continent land mass but the Arctic is a sea with edges of other countries in the Arctic circle.. \nThe Arctic has indigenous people and the Antarctic doesn't. \nThe Arctic has tundra but not the Antarctic\n\nWeather differences: \nAntarctic has strong winds but the Arctic has mild winds. \nAntarctica is colder and windier than the Arctic\n\nAnimal and Plant Life differences: \nThe Arctic has polar bears and the Antarctic does not. \nThe Antarctic has penguins and the Arctic doesn't. \nThe Antarctic has no trees. \nThe Arctic has Tundra with rich plant life in Spring and Summer. \nAntarctic has algae but not the Arctic. \nAntarctica has mainly calm animals but the Arctic has some fierce ones\n\n\nHuman Activity Differences: \nThe Arctic has Eskimos and Antarctica does not. \nThe Arctic has igloos and Antarctica does not. \nLong ago, Laps and Eskimos used the northern polar region but nobody lived in the southern polar region. \nThere are towns in the Arctic but not in Antarctica - just research bases. \nAntarctica wasn`t found for a long time when the Arctic was already found. \nWhen the sea is free from the ice in summer in the Arctic the hunter goes after seals.
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The lynx is a wild cat, somewhat larger than a bobcat, that lives in Canada and the northern US
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There is no difference between them, they are diffrent names for the same animal.\n_____\n\n>>>>>>First, is there such thing as a panther,\n>>>>> separate and distinct from a black leopard?\n\nNo. \n\nLet's set the wayback machine for 500BC, the early Roman Empire. At that time lions and leopards was still quite widespread in Egypt and Libya and was not uncommonly seen in Rome as a guard animal or exotic pet.\n\nBut travellers in those days also told stories of exotic and remarkable beasts like chimaeras, unicorns and rocs. And one of the exotic animals they told stories about was a large spotted cat called a pardus or pantherus. And just like the Rocs and unicorns the parda/panthera never existed. It was entirely made up. It had all sorts of remarkable traits. It could turn invisible. An adult pardus was at least as big as a lion but could shrink down to mimic a housecat so it get into houses and eat people in their sleep. A pardus could breath out a sweet fragrance that would cause its prey to become helpless and could even cause a human who breathed it to spend his life luting other humans off the road to be devoured by the pard.\n\nAnother common property of the Parda/Panthera is that they were all either male or female, and they could only reproduce by breeding with other animals. They mostly reproduced with lions (leo in Latin), giving rise to the hybrid animal know as leo pardus. A name the Romans later contracted to leopard. Early Romans seem to have genuinely believed that the leopard was not a species in its own right but a hybrid of a lion and the mythical panthera/parda.\n\nWhich is why we have all this confusion with the names. Panther applied to a fictitious big cat of unknown character, and a leopard was the offspring of a panther. Over time the names became every more confused and acquired subtly different meaning in the various European languages. \n\nBut in modern English the panther is just a leopard with black hair. They most commonly arise as individuals in a litter of otherwise perfectly normal leopards. Two spotted leopards will just produce black panthers occasionally. And two black panthers that breed will produce mostly spotted young. \n\nThe black hair is just a genetic quirk, it is exactly like red hair in humans. Just as two brown haired people can throw a red haired child, so two spotted leopards can throw black panther. \n\n>>>>Also, why would a melanistic version of a jaguar not be called a black jaguar instead of a black leopard?\n\nBecause South American countries speak Spanish or Portugese, not English. The word 'leopard' has a subtly different meaning in those languages. It is closer to the original Latin meaning of 'exotic big cat'. A black jaguar is rare enough to qualify as a leopard.\n\n>>>>>.... leopards are in Africa\n\nLeopards are the most widespread big cat on the planet. They are found in Africa, but they are also found through the middle east, into the Indian subcontinent and China and through South East Asia all the way to Java. They used to be common.\n\n>>> Makes no sense...\n\nIt makes no sense biologically. It makes perfect sense etymologically. \n\nJust like it makes perfect sense that Americans call a crocodilian alligator (literally meaning 'a lizard') when they have no close biological affinity to lizards. That could really confuse a Spanish speaker. But if you trace the etymology of the word it makes perfect sense.\n\nWords change there meaning over time, and when they hop between languages they often change meaning in very confusing ways.
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No, there are fairly major differences in their fine skeletal anatomy, especially their teeth that indicate that cats and lemurs evolved from completely different lineages of early mammals.\n\nThe primates (such as the lemurs) evolved from an insectivore lineage, and the earliest primates back in the Cretaceous would have looked rather similar to the modern tree shrew (Order Scandentia).\n\nThe carnivores evolved from condylarth stock (which also gave rise to the ungulates and the whales eventually), through early predators like Cimolestes, the cohort Ferae and from earlier Carnivores very similar to the Viverrids.  Modern civets and genets are probably most like the very early cats.
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Carinovires are animals that eat other animals as their source of food and nourisment. \nHerbivores are animals that consume plants and plant materials only as their primary source of food and nourishment.
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lol Croga!!\n\nYaakov is right, however we did have mountain lions and bobcats so the wording would be quite similar, but you need to be more specific in the language reference, there are a number of different tribes and dialects.
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Destruction of natural habitat of Caribou and other wildlife. Many Gwich'in people (one of the native people of Alaska) are dependent on the Porcupine Caribou Herd which calves on the coastal plain in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Gwich'in people have been very active in protesting and lobbying against the possibility of oil drilling in the ANWR.