The Alashan wapiti is a subspecies of ''Cervus canadensis'' (named " elk" or "wapiti" in North America), found in northern

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and

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. It is the smallest subspecies of elk, has the lightest color, and is the least studied, other than the

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

Merriam's elk.

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