They, from evening to early morning eat a cane, young shoots of deciduous and coniferous trees, their bark and leaves. In the summer feed on herbaceous plants. Very like water plants. Love sorrel, water lilies, mosses, lichens, and branches of a willow, birch, mountain ash . Elk's a lot of enemies is the lynx, bear, wolf. Wolves attack a flock during the deep snow thickness of more than 70 cm in the forest, then run away from them difficult. A bear attacked from ambush. Elk finishes with the enemies of the front legs with sharp hooves: it could severely injure or even kill to death, and a bear, and wolf. And now, trot, when she jumps off the trees, there is no salvation.