Yep, sorry a European-North American clash of names
The equivalent of your Elk is our Red Deer.
What you call Moose, we call Elk.
:-O
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Canada & the United States, Winter 2009-2010 (1 Viewer)
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Yep, sorry a European-North American clash of names
The equivalent of your Elk is our Red Deer.
What you call Moose, we call Elk.
:-O
birdboybowley
Well-known member.....apparently so ;)
Hey Jos
Great read so far - love the last Snowy pic especially!
I feel you were born about 180yrs too late - you'd've made an excellent pioneering explorer back then! My kind of birding, great stuff!
Great read so far - love the last Snowy pic especially!
I feel you were born about 180yrs too late - you'd've made an excellent pioneering explorer back then! My kind of birding, great stuff!
Mike Richardson
Formerly known as Skink1978
Yep, sorry a European-North American clash of names
The equivalent of your Elk is our Red Deer.
What you call Moose, we call Elk.
:-O
While that is correct, in the UK we also call Elk Moose. That's European Elk and not NA Elk. I still call NA Elk, Elk, but our Red Deer are always Red Deer.
Confused!? So am I!
Don't even mention Reindeer and Caribou
Farnboro John
Well-known member
You're confused: last summer in Finland I saw Elk, Wolverine and Brown Bear.
Or was it Moose, Glutton and Grizzly? All are the same three animals (I think, I can't always keep up with latest tidal movements in taxonomy).
But where I get really really baffled is over the genus Cervus, where I think at the moment Red Deer and NA Elk are conspecific but Sika is not.
Red Deer looks nothing like NA Elk or Sika, and sounds completely different to either.
NA Elk and Sika look nothing like each other but sound very similar.
WTHIH as the aviation people say.
John
Or was it Moose, Glutton and Grizzly? All are the same three animals (I think, I can't always keep up with latest tidal movements in taxonomy).
But where I get really really baffled is over the genus Cervus, where I think at the moment Red Deer and NA Elk are conspecific but Sika is not.
Red Deer looks nothing like NA Elk or Sika, and sounds completely different to either.
NA Elk and Sika look nothing like each other but sound very similar.
WTHIH as the aviation people say.
John
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
So where does Wapiti fit in? Same as NA Elk?
James
James
Mike Richardson
Formerly known as Skink1978
Xenospiza
Distracted
DNA results are in agreement with the sound: http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=30ba9b29b383e495855fedc13eb054fa
Farnboro John
Well-known member
Doesn't surprise me. No good yelling your head off if everyone listening doesn't speak the language (good heavens, is an Englishman really saying that?)
Looks like the armchair is likely to notch up another lifer then....
John
