Re: Wapiti - Bulls (Elk) 1 (WAY off topic)

I agree with Jim!

If we are going to split zoological hairs here, "elk" has always properly referred to the animal we North Americans know by the Algonguin Native American name "moose" -- genus Alces, "das Elch" in German.

What many North Americans (but not I) call an "elk" is really just a big deer -- genus Cervus, same as the European red deer. Why not embrace precision and parallelism and use the Native American name? Let's call it a "wapiti", just as we say "moose" instead of elk.

(Stepping off my soapbox now to take cover from projectiles hurled or shot my way for saying this...)

-Philip Marshall



Jim Grigsby Wrote:
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> Johnson Barr Wrote:
> ==================================================
> =====
> >
> > As Rich Muth has pointed out, "Pronghorns" is
> > "Pronghorns" (NOT 'Antelope', or even
> 'Pronghorn
> > Antelope').
> > Likewise "Elks" is "Elks" (NOT 'Wapiti'). 
> In
> > the future please exercise restraint and
> refrain
> > from further insults.
> >
> But.....My Dear Mr. Barr, Elks is animals living
> in Northern Europe and closely resembling what we
> call mooses. (Is this one of your kin?) Perhaps
> your former esteemed lodge should call itself
> BPOW. Or, better yet, bPOW which would have
> greater impact.
>
> Have a good holiday season.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/23/2014 02:17PM by philip.marshall.