"Bull Elk with Bell" Desk Mat

A peculiar feature of the bull elk is the curious hairy appendage hanging from the throat, known to hunters as the “bell.” The differences between the elk (or moose, as it is there called) of the United States and the typical elk of Scandinavia are so slight that it requires an expert to distinguish between the two. Also very noteworthy that certain Scandinavian elk never develop the huge expansions, or “shovels,” which form the most characteristic feature of the antlers of the species, but carry only five simple tines; and in east Siberia this simpler type of antler seems to be very prevalent.