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February 15, 2012
Fright night for elks in west Sweden
Published: 31 Oct 09 11:43 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22992/20091031/
The elk population in the county of Halland, western Sweden, took somewhat of a blow on Friday evening as six animals died in the space of an hour, after colliding with traffic in separate incidents.
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Police are at a loss to explain why so many accidents happened in such a short space of time in one evening.
”You often hear that elks tend to move about more at dusk or dawn,” Dan Lewstam, from Halland police said.”
”But this was after five o clock in the evening when it was already dark outside."
No people were reported to have been injured in the accidents.
However, all six elks died, some due to the impact, while others were later put down by hunters called in by the police.
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The english word is moose. Please stop calling moose elk, it is really annoying.
That is quite confusing.
The AMERICAN NAME is Moose
The English name IS Elk
The Swedish name is Ålg
The German name is Elch
The Latin name is Alces
The name Elk was in use long before Columbus found America.(Cue for discussion on claims that the Vikings found it first)
England and America, two nations divided by a common language. Not onyl Moose Elk.
How about that very dangerous habit of Americans driving on the pavement where the English walk
As others said, the British English word is "Elk".
You present yet another example of Americans (and why is it that US citizens are called Americans, even though they only occupy a small part of America) who want to impose their egocentric (meaning they know little outside of their own country) view on the world. Such attitudes explain why other countries often feel antagonized by the USA.
African Buffalo
Domestic Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), widely used for dairy, meat and draught
Wild Water Buffalo (Bubalus arnee), the ancestor of the domestic water buffalo
Dwarf Buffalo or anoa, any of several small species of Bubalus
Buffalo, colloquial American name for American Bison
White buffalo, sporadically occurring white American bison with spiritual significance in several Native American religions
I feel very bad for the Elk and think maybe speed enforcement and reduction must be implemented on the roads that intersect the Elk home grazing area. A speeding Volvo is a deadly weapon and most Elk are quite shy and peaceful.
MOST people do not need to get to a destination 'faster' unless they are driving a First Aid Wagon so slow down a bit and have some respect for all the lives that you share your life with.
Besides, driving at this low speed on an interstate (100/110 Km/hr limit) is dangerous to other motorists as well.
High fences around highways is the best course. However, in some places they can cut natural animal crossings. Some kind of safe compromise needs to be reached.
You present yet another example of Americans (and why is it that US citizens are called Americans, even though they only occupy a small part of America) who want to impose their egocentric...view on the world.
Hardly!
It is yet another example of Europeans imposing their views on the world. The British referred to their colonies in North America as the American colonies and the residences there as Americans. The name remains in use for more than two centuries.
By the way, in the North America we also have this cow sized deer that some of the natives call "Wapiti". That's the animal we call "Elk".
Bob in Texas
Thus, moose is the proper English word for the animal. I think we need to defer to the North Americans for this world since the animal exists in that part of the world. If the British borrowed the word from German, for example, it must have happened later or at least not in common usage in 1600. So this is the reverse of the more common case where the "new world" comes up with a new name for something that was established in England. The North Americans have precedence this case. There is no Academy for the English language, so the fact that there was no common usage of the word elk in England in 1600 is the critical factor.
It is preferable that we purged the word elk from the English language. The large deer species called elk in North America may have been named so by non-English settlers. (For example, Swedes or Germans.) Just a theory. We are better off adopting the Indian (native American) name for this animal as well.
Besides, all those posters and bumper stickers saying "The Moose is Loose in Sweden" would lose their punch. "The Elk is Loose in Sweden" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
And now for something completely different. I am merely speculating here but I don't think it is too far off the mark if I claim that the first English speakers that ventured into the woods in North America and encountered a big deer thought it was the same animal as the elk that they had heard about, but never seen themselves. When they later met a real elk the word was already in use for the wapiti (which, as it happens, is a close relative to red deer), so they had to settle for the local Indian word when giving it a name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk - this is an elk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose - this is a moose
I digress, as you do not have real elks in Sweden you call the moose an elk. Freaky deaky swedes. From now on I will call my cat a dog.
An elk is a wapiti, a moose is an elk and "The Cariboo is an intermontane region of British Columbia" (according to Wikipedia). A caribou, on the other hand, is a reindeer.
And to scepticon, don't call me an American, If I was an american I would have invaded your country for the Elk farm trade by now.
I am , in fact, born British, raised Canadian. Don't go throwing the "assume" word around.