so it's elk season. Get a way from me. Get away from me. You darn bull
it's a beautiful fall day in Rocky Mountain National Park and you come up
to the mountains to take pictures of beautiful elk its rut season and the
elk are everywhere what is rut? Rut is when the males and
females come together and they make babies
my favorite time of year to come to the Rocky Mountains is fall the colors are
beautiful the aspen trees are starting to change its october right now right in
the beginning and you can see the beautiful colors behind me and they just
get better and better the greatest thing is estes park which has considered the
doorway to the Rocky Mountain National Park if you've never been to Estes Park
I highly recommend it the elk love coming down into the town this time of
year because the males and the females come together and they fight over the
harems but no matter what time of year you decide to come to the Rocky
Mountains they're absolutely beautiful wintertime is a lot less crowded this
time of year in the Rocky Mountain National Park there's tons of people
because they all come up to see the elk
you can also find bighorn sheep and wild turkeys so as you're driving down the
roads in Estes Park in Rocky Mountain National Park go slow and look back and
forth and you will find wild animals everywhere so when you start seeing
traffic jams like this one in front of us that usually means that there's
animals nearby usually elk or bighorn sheep so we just kind of wait our turn
to take pictures there's one bull right in the middle maybe we can hear him few
bull
rut stems from the Latin word to war rut is not only the mating season of health
deer sheep camels goats Kong horns bison giraffes and antelope also have a
rut season even skunks and elephants do the elk rut depends on where the elk
lived in the northern hemisphere it occurs between mid August and mid
October in the southern hemisphere it occurs between mid February and mid
April and it tends to last anywhere between 20 to 45 days
males are called Bulls and females are called calves there is usually a
dominant pole with in the harem called the herd bull other mature Bulls called
satellite Bulls will circle the perimeter of the herd the Bulls will
often let out a bugle in call a pool that has the ability to have a deep
bugling tone is associated with the size of the bull the bigger the bull the
deeper the bugle and is often used by the herd bull to express his dominance
over the herd and to bring the harem closer together it is also used by the
satellite Bulls to challenge the herd full
when viewing any wild animal it is important to keep a large distance from
the herd and especially the Bulls they will attack if you are too near a
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