Moose vs. Caribou — What's the Difference?

The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (Alces alces), is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate ("open-hand shaped") antlers; most other members of the deer family have antlers with a dendritic ("twig-like") configuration.

A large deer (Rangifer tarandus) of the Arctic tundra and northern boreal forests, having large hooves and long branched antlers. Subspecies native to Eurasia are usually called reindeer.

A large deer (Alces alces) of northern North American and Eurasian forests, having a broad pendulous muzzle, humped shoulders, and large, palmate antlers in the male.

Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland species (Rangifer Caribou).

Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.

Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called reindeer in Eurasia and caribou in North America

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A large cervine mammal (Alces alces syn. Alces machlis, syn Alces Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many Zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.

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Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called elk in Europe and moose in North America