Comments on: Swedish woman injured in unprovoked elk attack

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:35:29 +0000

Wow, you are correct. I did not know that. Just checked it out and found that yes, that animal was named elk by Europeans, and named moose in North America by Natives. The other animal is known as elk or wapiti. Same name different animals. I never knew.

By: Øystein;Norway

Øystein;Norway — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:30:31 +0000

@Robert – I think you must be from North America, as the use of “elk” and “moose” is different. I have always learned that moose is North American and elk is European.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:19:10 +0000

It must be a translation error. The photo in this article, and all the links listed in the comments above, are showing the animal that in the English language is called a moose. Including the youtube video link posted above with the comment “a meeting with an big elk can be quite scary”. All are of a moose.
There really are large difference between deer, elk, and moose. Easily recognizable differences.
I thought you had realized this until the third comment was posted speaking of an elk but showing a video of a moose.
Just trying to clarify the nomenclature.

By: Øystein;Norway

Øystein;Norway — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:52:43 +0000

;-) – Back to topic – a meeting with an big elk can be quite scary…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzvcRYidcCU

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:10:44 +0000

Thank you for your observation, Øystein;Norway. Sometimes my own ignorance shocks even me!

In my defence though, all the animals labelled “elk” in our photo library (except the one I have now used for this post) seemed to be of the same deer-like animal previously seen. There is clearly a lot of elk education needed in this world.

Apologies for the inaccuracy and thanks (as ever) for reading IceNews!

Alex, editor

By: Øystein;Norway

Øystein;Norway — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:24:08 +0000

The illustration look more like a deer than an elk ;-).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose

As the animal is big (males ut to 600 kg+) and there is a lot of them i Scandinavia – 120 000 in Norway – 3-400 000 in Sweden + more in Finland and Russia, we need traffic sign for them.

http://www.jaktweb.no/uploads/images/nyheter/fare-for-elg-skilt.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose