Does this elk suffer from short jaw syndrome?
(This occurs from inbreeding)


The lower jaw appears to be much shorter on the elk in the photo.

I once shot a doe in West Virginia with short jaw.

I too have seen a few deer with a short lower jaw but there is nothing abnormal about the jaw length of the digest elk.

Pull up some internet pictures of elk and I think you will find they all have a lower jaw that appears to be shorter then the upper jaw due to also having a nose at the end of the upper jaw.

R.S. Bodenhorn

I did just that.

I pulled up several pics. Some did appear to have a shorter bottom jaw yet some didn't.


Just looks too short to me, on that digest elk.

Thought maybe some inbreeding was going on.