Video: 'Elk Wanders Into German Office Building'

"Raphael Orlove" (orlove) 08/25/2014 at 13:26 • Filed to: Infrastructure, Animals

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Have no fear, the elk is ok.

How did the elk get in this office building? It wandered, the AP reports.

Ilike_cougars > Raphael Orlove 08/25/2014 at 13:35

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Volvo trying to do some industrial espionage?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Raphael Orlove 08/25/2014 at 13:38

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It wandered, the AP reports

Good: that's been solved, then. AP ON THE CASE

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > Raphael Orlove 08/25/2014 at 13:42

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Thats a moose Raph!

Raphael Orlove > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 08/25/2014 at 13:44

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they call moose elk over in europe

it's confusing

Racescort666 > Raphael Orlove 08/25/2014 at 13:45

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I remember there was a moose that got loose in one of the high schools in the UP once. I'm sure that was equally exciting.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > Raphael Orlove 08/25/2014 at 13:51

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what do they call (what we call) elk over there then? moose?

Raphael Orlove > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 08/25/2014 at 14:11

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they call them...maybe

/jepsen'd

/2012'd

Raphmoe > Raphael Orlove 08/25/2014 at 14:59

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this is great!

Cielmer > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 08/25/2014 at 15:20

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elk moose obviously /duh

Dusty Ventures > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 08/25/2014 at 15:27

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A moose once bit my sister...

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > Dusty Ventures 08/25/2014 at 15:30

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You have my attention, please continue.

Svend > Raphael Orlove 08/25/2014 at 15:44

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I was expecting a bad joke such as,

an elk wanders into a German office building and a German says to it "vi ze long face?".

MossInTheUSA > Raphael Orlove 08/25/2014 at 16:18

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I laughed way too hard at that.

Cé hé sin > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 08/25/2014 at 17:13

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Nope. Alces alces is the elk. The similarity between the Latin and English (and German for that matter) names is a clue. When European settlers arrived in North America they encountered large and unknown deer. They were aware that large deer in Northern Europe were elk but were unfamiliar with them and so they applied the name to what's now referred to as the elk (cervus canadensis) in North America. Subsequently alces alces was discovered and needing a new name were given an Algonquian name, moose.

By a similar process reindeer = caribou.

Cé hé sin > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 08/25/2014 at 17:14

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They're not called anything because they're not found here. If you had one in a zoo it'd be an American elk or wapiti.

wildbill > Raphael Orlove 08/26/2014 at 07:50

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A Møøse once bit my sister

wildbill > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 08/26/2014 at 07:51

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A Møøse once bit my sister

Harris_the_Unknowing > Raphael Orlove 08/26/2014 at 08:58

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A moose bit my sister once.

Harris_the_Unknowing > Svend 08/26/2014 at 08:59

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Ja, I do not know..mein vater had one as well.

Flachzwilling > Raphael Orlove 08/26/2014 at 13:11

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Actually *pointingindexfingerup* it's confusing the other way round: The "Elch" (German), "Älg" (Swedish) or "Elk" (UK English) derives its name from the Latin "Alces Alces", whereas the North-American elk got its name from the dumbness of the first settlers, who confused the wapiti with the European elk (Really, how hard can it be?! Scientists were sure for years that the elk (NA) were identical to the European red deer, which the settlers should have been familiar with. Numbnuts!)