Female elk typically begin giving birth between late May and early June and will be protective of their offspring, said John Paczkowski, a wildlife coexistence expert with Alberta Parks.

Female elk learn to avoid hunters as they get older, making them virtually "bulletproof" to human predators, research from the University of Alberta study suggests.

“Elk in North America were almost extirpated 100 years ago and now they are abundant.” One of the elk in Boyce’s study was 23 years old, while many of the other females lived to about age 20.

Once they reach nine or 10 years of age, female elk have usually learned to outsmart their main predators - human hunters - and become almost "invulnerable" to them.

It’s the time of year when female elk can get aggressive as they protect their newborns. From the middle of May to the end of June, elk calving season takes place across Alberta — including ...

In 2012, the Alberta government gave out 200 hunting tags for female elk, while 300 were issued the following year. This year, hunters could shoot up to 1,160 female elk — including the ...

A female elk with a unique genetic trait is turning heads in Colorado and beyond. Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently shared photographs of a rare elk, a piebald female cow, out in the wild. The ...

This female elk, also called a cow elk, has piebaldism. Piebaldism is a condition that causes the skin or fur of animals to be mostly white, with patches of brown or other colors. How Deer And Elk ...

JASPER, Alta. — Parks Canada says it has euthanized an elk in Jasper National Park after it injured a woman in a parking lot.

It was a dramatic takedown of an elk by a local wolf pack on a railway overpass near the Banff townsite, leading to an hour-long spectacle to slow down trains and remove the carcass.

It was a dramatic takedown of an elk by a local wolf pack on a railway overpass near the Banff townsite, leading to an hour-long spectacle to slow down trains and remove the carcass. On Sunday ...

A female elk with a unique genetic trait is turning heads in Colorado and beyond. Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently shared photographs of a rare elk, a piebald female cow, out in the wild.