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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 09/30/2019 at 15:48 • Filed to: Elk, Reindeer

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Smoked reindeer heart and bits of elk (or moose if you prefer the Algonquin word)

Seriously expensive.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 15:57

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Wow, I’ve never seen moose in the supermarket. Don’t know if I’d buy it. They are very rare in Montana and I don’t support hunting rare animals.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 16:06

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I f elk are moose, what do you call moose?

Pictured: elk

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/30/2019 at 16:10

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I think he’s talking about elk.

Moose only live in North America.

vicali > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/30/2019 at 16:11

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C an’t commercially sell wild meat here, only stuff from the store is either farm elk or bison.

Moose is real good though. Freezer alternates between e lk and m oose depending on how well the family hunt went.

Discerning > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/30/2019 at 16:12

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Wapiti

Cé hé sin > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/30/2019 at 16:14

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They’re a North American species not found in Europe so there’s little need to call them anything, but I suppose American elk. They were thought to be genetically identical to our red deer but current thinking has moved away from this.

Elk are called moose in America because European settlers not familiar with them asked the locals and “moose” it was (or some version of that word)

The word elk was later applied to a different deer by mistake.

Edit: the NA moose is the elk in Northern Europe, the NA elk isn’t found here

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Discerning 09/30/2019 at 16:15

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I edited my post. So...

moose = elk

elk = wapiti?

Cé hé sin > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/30/2019 at 16:15

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They’re the same animal. Moose is an Algonquin word and was use d by European settlers not f amiliar with them.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/30/2019 at 16:18

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There are moose as we know them in Sweden. AKA the “moose test”.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > vicali 09/30/2019 at 16:19

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Bison is common here, but never seen elk outside of a restaurant setting.

Chariotoflove > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 16:20

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I’ve never had reindeer, but my wife said it was common on the buffets when she was in Norway.  She said it was delicious enough to think about Rudolph and still go for seconds.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 16:22

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Aha... moòs

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/30/2019 at 16:24

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Which is actually the “elk test”. So confusing!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/30/2019 at 16:26

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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/30/2019 at 16:27

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Correction: things called “moose” only live in North America! LOL

Cé hé sin > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/30/2019 at 16:28

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Or as it says on the labels.... Älg, pronounced in a manner unexpected as “elye” or thereabouts.

Cé hé sin > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/30/2019 at 16:38

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They have about 400,000 elk in Sweden and as they have few predators nowadays about 80,000 are shot annually. They’re a major source of road traffic fatalities as they are quite tall and a car will tend to go under the body and then contact the latter at about windscreen level. That doesn’t go well for drivers and front passengers.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 16:55

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Oh wow, in the US we have done a good job of killing our large game animals. I looked it up and there are estimated to be 163,000 elk in the state of montana, and approximately 5,000 moose. Moose here are huge, have a solid rack and are generally very dark in color. 

DutchieDC2R > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 17:00

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Hmm, reindeer games....nice! 

Wacko > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 17:17

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https://newcountry991.com/moose-or-elk-how-to-tell-the-difference/

SiennaMan > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/30/2019 at 17:21

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It depends where you go really. While not necessarily as devastating as a moose/elk strike, hitting a deer can mess up a car pretty good and potentially injure the occupants.

I was in the hills of southeastern Ohio on vacation over the weekend and saw not fewer than 9 young deer as I was driving, a reminder to slow down a little on the forest like coun try roads..

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > SiennaMan 09/30/2019 at 17:31

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Deer strikes in my area are incredibly common. I had a fawn jump out onto the road and attempted to jump over my car. It ended up stuck on my roof.

SiennaMan > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/30/2019 at 18:16

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That’s amazing in a scary sort of way. In suburban Cincinnati they weren’t real common, but common enough that I had a few near misses in the 1990s as a young driver.

My best story of such a near miss happened in the early 2000s, I was driving an early ‘90s Taurus on the interstate shortly after dark and ran over what I thought at first was a log at about 50 mph (I saw it in time to slow down a little, and swerve to where I hit it with both  driver side tires)

As the car didn’t wipe out then and there, I drove to my parents house which was near the next exit. When I shown a flashlight under the car to see how bad the damage was there was a stripe of brown fur down the underside and some flesh hanging off the rear axle.

The guys at the shop we took it to refused to touch it until after it went through a car wash..

Discerning > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/30/2019 at 18:53

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That’ s my understand anyway, yeah

punkgoose17 > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 22:53

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We call these elk in North America. You probably call them Wapiti, which is actually a Shawnee name. TIL  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk

wafflesnfalafel > Cé hé sin 09/30/2019 at 23:08

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We have a fair number of large herds in the rural foothills out here.  

Cé hé sin > Wacko 10/01/2019 at 02:04

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The over the left looks just like our  red deer and at one time they were thought to be the same species.

Clown Shoe Pilot > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/02/2019 at 09:22

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A Møøse once bit my sister...