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Species
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Registered Name
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Deer
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Most Common Big Game animal
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White Tailed Deer
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Deer
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Larger cousin to above
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Mule Deer
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Deer
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Found in AZ, NM - Very small
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Coues White Tailed Deer
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Deer
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Found all along West Coast
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Columbia Black Tailed Deer
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Deer
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Found in West Canada and Southwest Alaska
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Sitka Black Tailed Deer
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Elk
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Most common and widespread elk subspecies
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Rocky Mountain Elk
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Elk
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Largest elk subspecies
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Roosevelt Elk
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Elk
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Least common and smallest elk subspecies
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Tule Elk
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Moose
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3rd largest North American animal
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Canada Moose
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Moose
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Smallest of the Moose subspecies
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Shiras Moose
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Moose
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2nd largest North American animal and only found in Canada
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Alaskan Yukon Moose
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Caribou
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Northwestern Canada and Alaska
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Barren Ground Caribou
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Caribou
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Lives in the Tundra of North-Central Canada
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Central Canadian Barren Ground Caribou
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Caribou
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Smallest antlered Caribou and lives in central and eastern Canada
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Woodland Caribou
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Caribou
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Largest of the Caribou subspecies
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Mountain Caribou
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Caribou
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Least common Caribou subspecies
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Quebec Labrador Caribou
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Bear
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Largest land carnivore in the world
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Polar Bear
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Bear
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Second largest land carnivore in the world
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Alaskan Brown Bear
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Bear
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Only difference to above is location, location, location.
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Grizzly Bear
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Bear
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Most common bear subspecies
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Black Bear
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Big Cat
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Largest cat in North America. Found in more than 30 states
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Cougar
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Bovine
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A hairy critter who lives in northern Canada
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Muskox
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Bovine
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NOT a buffalo
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Bison
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Bovine - Goat
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Lives in northwestern United States and western Canada
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American Mountain Goat
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Bovine - Goat
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The icon of sheep country. What you think of when you think big game sheep
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Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep
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Bovine - Goat
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Slender long horned sheep who lives in the Alaskan Mountains, northern Yukon, British Columbia and the Mackenzie Mountains
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Dall Sheep
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Bovine - Goat
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Smaller than their high mountain cousin, this subspecies resides in arid parts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico
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Desert Big Horn Sheep
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Bovine - Goat
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Found in northern British Columbia and southern portions of the Yukon
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Stone Sheep
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Antilope
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The "Speed Goat" who lives west of the Mississippi River
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Prong Horn
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