Forest Wildlife

by Donna Kennedy

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Forest Wildlife

Artist

Donna Kennedy

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Photograph - Photographs

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Original Fine Art Photography and digital artwork by Donna Kennedy-
Several of my photos combined with a texture from The Daily Texture…

Elk (Cervus canadensis) also called “Wapiti”, which is the Cree Indian word for “white” referring the color of the animal’s rump. Weighing in at up to 700 pounds, the North American elk stands as one of the biggest deer species on earth. But don’t think that just because an elk is large that it’s slow. A mature bull can run as fast as 40 miles per hour – they’ve even been able to outrun horses in short races. And that’s not all. Elk can jump eight feet vertically. Each March the bulls shed their rack of antlers. The rack will drop off completely and the next one is already starting to grow. The new antlers, which grow almost an inch a day, are filled with blood vessels and can weigh up to 35 pounds. The antlers have a velvet-like covering, which is why we call this process “in the velvet.” They will reach their full length in mid-summer when the blood vessels inside dry up and the much-lighter antler becomes calcified like a bone. Preparing himself for breeding season, the bull runs the velvet off on tree limbs and sharpens the tines.

Wild rabbits (Orytolagus cuniculus) have compact bodies with long, powerful hind legs. A Rabbits fur is generally long and soft and is grey/brown in colour and they have white underparts and a short tail. Their long ears of rabbits are most likely an adaptation for detecting predators. Wild rabbits are rather uniform in body proportions and stance. The male is called a buck and the female a doe.

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April 13th, 2023

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