• In areas where the snow cover reaches 70 cm, elk migrate to less snowy areas during winter. In places with snow cover of 30–50 cm, elk live sedentarily.
• The moose can dive to 5–6 m for aquatic plants.

The Eurasian elk and North American elk are found within the biogeographical realms of Nearctica and Palearctica. The species occupies ecosystems including Sarmatian mixed forests, Scandinavian mountain birch forests and meadows, the Kazakh forest-steppe, the Ural mountain forests and taiga, the Scandinavian-Russian taiga, and the West Siberian taiga.