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- From: young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young)
- Subject: Re: elks, plus bone and stone
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.234858.8201@pixel.kodak.com>
- Originator: young@sasquatch
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- Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
- References: <1992Dec23.135602.9750@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:48:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.135602.9750@ac.dal.ca> hecate@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >From what I have heard, elks = reindeer = caribou.
- >Anyone else know the exact taxonomic relationship
- >between these creatures.
-
- I don't know about Canada, but in the U.S., reindeer = caribou, and
- elk is something a little different. From my limited sources, the
- caribou (genus Rangifer) is the North American variety of reindeer,
- while the elk is Cervus canadensis, or more properly called "wapiti"
- in common usage, not "elk." In Europe, the elk is Alces alces, and
- is related to what we call the moose, Alces americana. I believe
- they are ALL in the family Cervidae, but then I just got all this
- out of a dictionary, so I could be wrong!
-
-
- -Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
-