It has always puzzled me why Americans call those animals elk when, in fact, they are the largest of the red deer species. The critter the Euros call elk is called moose by Americans. I'm told that moose is the Algonquin word for the critter.
And then there's the caribou, which is the reindeer in Europe.
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It has always puzzled me why Americans call those animals elk when, in fact, they are the largest of the red deer species. The critter the Euros call elk is called moose by Americans. I'm told that moose is the Algonquin word for the critter.
And then there's the caribou, which is the reindeer in Europe.
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