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Photo by Edmund Heller. 



Fig. 70. A band of cow elk in the Gardiner Valley in early winter. 

 The characteristic gait is a rapid trot, the muzzle being held high. 



Photo by Edward R. War 



Fig. /I. " Billy," the gelded elk that for several years frequented Camp 

 Roosevelt and the Lamar Valley in summer, migrating to Mammoth in 

 winter. The abnormal antlers were soft, and were never shed ; one had 

 been accidentally broken. 



