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Bull elk tend to form harems of 5 to 20 females or cow elk and protect them during the rutting season. Bulls protect their harems from competing males, and often fights occur between bulls of similar body and antler size, or when young bulls get super confident in themselves and decide they can take on the older bulls. Bulls mate with the cows much like any cloven-hooved mammals mate including domestic cattle, moose, deer, bison, pigs, etc. Intercourse between the bull and cow only takes a few seconds, because if it went any longer another bull could come along and toss him off of the cow.

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