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To: afraidfortherepublic

Looks more like a moose than an elk to me. But then those Swedes have always been confused about species.


26 posted on 09/07/2011 7:39:05 AM PDT by eaglesiniowa ((Hope is not a course of action))
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To: eaglesiniowa

‘Alk’ is the original Swedish word for moose. It was later mistakenly applied to the big deer in North America, I think by early French explorers though I could be wrong.


29 posted on 09/07/2011 7:49:32 AM PDT by rfp1234
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