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Elk, Deer, Antilope and Moose.........

Post 1

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

Talk about them here...........


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Post 2

Malabarista - now with added pony

smiley - laugh

All not the same thing - but "explorers" to America had never seen "real" elk, and so they named the first large deer they saw that...


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Post 3

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

Yes it gets very confusing


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Post 4

Malabarista - now with added pony

just like many people thinking rabbits and hares are the same thing


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Post 5

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

Yes they are rodents but very different


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Post 6

Malabarista - now with added pony

Thank goodness for latin names to clarify


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Post 7

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

Yes very useful but I am rusty on them


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Post 8

Malabarista - now with added pony

All I remember from school is
King Phillip Chases Old Fat Girl Scoutssmiley - erm


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Post 9

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

I remember 'Richard The Third Gave Battle In Vain' colours of rainbow


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Post 10

Malabarista - now with added pony

I just now that as someone named Roy G Bivsmiley - erm


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Post 11

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

Wolf is cainus lupus


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Post 12

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

fox is vulpus vulpus


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Post 13

Malabarista - now with added pony

Yeah -luckily my mother's got the books for looking em all up.


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Post 14

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

So what is your fave deer ?


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Post 15

Malabarista - now with added pony

Dunno that I have one - do you mean a Cervus, or anything vaguely shaped like that?


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Post 16

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

whats a cervus?


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Post 17

Malabarista - now with added pony

The Genus of "real" deer


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Post 18

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

oh I like Reindeer and Red Deer


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Post 19

Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride

http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/caribou_reindeer.html Caribou


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Post 20

Malabarista - now with added pony

Reindeer are good, but not really deer - they're Rangifer

Still kind of cutesmiley - winkeye


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