6.2K views · 96 reactions | Terri and Mike Vidricaire from Waterton Lakes National Park came across this herd of elk. You can clearly hear the loud wailing bugle calls the male elk use to compete for females. The video was taken on what the locals refer to as the "flats," more commonly known as Marquis Hole. For two days in a row, and without the crowds, the two observed more than 300 elk nearing the end of the rut. | CBC Calgary | Facebook

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An exhausted bugle from this bull elk. #bullelk #elk #elkbugle #elkbugling #estespark #estesparkcolorado #foryou #reels #naturereels #wildlifereels #fyp #fbreelsvideo #fbreels #reelsfb | Colorado Adventures

In case you are missing that sound 😉 Of course that is the famous Elk bugle. And here's a neat little tidbit of info from National Park Service: "Research by Dr. Joel Berger of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Bronx Zoo suggests that elk bugle more often and for longer periods of time, and that elk form larger aggregations in Rocky Mountain National Park than in parks such as Yellowstone where they have predators such as wolves and grizzly bears." So I wonder how those guys stack up ag