What is the rut and how are humans impacting the rut? The rut is probably the most vital event in a species’ yearly life cycle. The rut is the mating season, usually fall, for many large mammals. It ...

Rocky Mountain National Park officials have extended the timeframe for how long parts of the park will remain closed for the elk rut season due to an increase in visitors approaching the animals in ...

While bucks are fattening their bodies and growing antlers, female deer (otherwise known as does) are preparing for a short period of breeding behavior or estrus. This breeding period, called deer ...

In this July 2012 file photo from The Republican, a Massachusetts Environmental Police officer helps keep a moose cornered behind an Easthampton school while another officer prepares to shoot a ...

A woman received a rude lesson in wildlife safety at Estes Park recently, when she wandered too close to a bull elk during rutting season. The visitor tried to sneak past the animal, which was clearly ...

Wyoming’s wild bison are the first of the ungulates (hooved animals) to kick off the fall breeding season, or rut. For bison, the rut starts in July, but really gets going in August and carries into ...

ESTES PARK, Colo. — The elk mating period has begun in Colorado. Starting Sept. 1, Rocky Mountain National Park officials institute their annual closures to prevent disturbance and harassment of elk ...

FORKS – Sequim is not the only place in Clallam County that may have an elk problem. Last week, about two miles east of Forks, a 14-year-old thoroughbred horse, Siemon, was gored by a bull elk in what ...