The elk rut is here, but what does that mean? If you’re not very familiar with these animals (like me when I moved here), here is an "elk 101" with common terms and fun facts for you to read before ...

As summer draws to a close and autumn comes rolling in, many of us humans start to think about slowing down and heading inside for cozy evenings and big sweaters. This is not the case however, for the ...

The annual elk rut has come to Estes Park. During this time of year, male elk get particularly aggressive and will fight one another to defend or compete for harems. This season lasts about a month, ...

Few calls of the wild evoke as much excitement and intrigue as the bugle of a rutting bull elk … except maybe for multiple bugles from multiple bulls as they challenge each other while persuading cows ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — As the leaves begin to change in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, so does the behavior of elk. In the Cataloochee and Oconaluftee areas of the park, elk are ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a crowd of onlookers gathered on a bike path along a nine-hole golf course in Estes Park on a brisk morning in late September, Rodney Ford peered through ...

Elk bugling is unlike any trumpet or trombone that you’ve ever heard, according to wildlife area manager Bryan Swearingen. "All bull elk will bugle, but most of the bugling that you hear out here ...

The piercing sound of a bull elk’s bugle was captured on a Ring doorbell camera in Colorado, video shows. Robbie Ruhaak and her husband set up Ring doorbells around their home in Estes Park to capture ...

MAMMOTH, Wyo. — His stomach heaving quickly up and down, the 6-point bull elk stretches out his shaggy, dark brown neck, curls back his upper lip and bugles. The eerie sound begins with a high-pitched ...

ESTES PARK • In an aspen-lined meadow crowned by the regal peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park, a bull elk raises his snout to the setting sun. It’s a tell-tale sign of the sound Coloradans long for ...