Styling moose

[webofevil]

Your handy moose/elk ready reckoner:


1. What the US (and Canada) call a moose:


 
... the Norwegians (and Swedes, Danes, half of Finland etc) call an elk.
 
 
2. What the US (and Canada) call an elk:


 
... God knows what the Scandinavians call that.

Incidentally, the Latin name for the so-called “moose” is alces alces—from which the animal will surely have derived its TRUE name, “Elk”. It's not called moosus moosus, is it? Thus the Scandinavians win.

Comments

[ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com]

They are pretty much the same thing aren't they though. I mean really.

[amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com]

Do the arrows indicate where you squeeze to open?

[chiller.livejournal.com]

a) I wish the arrows had labels attached, reading: "Mmmmm! Nummy!"; and

b) What do people who call the top one an "elk" call that thing on the bottom? It looks like a red deer. But presumably it's not a red deer, as the term "elk" implies "bloody vast" and red deer aren't all that vast.

My head hurts.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Oh, my bad. It IS a red deer. Man, someone ought to have a word with those US-ers and Canadians. *tut* Elk!

Call that a moose?

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

etc.