Mooses [was Re: [Sca-cooks] Regretable foods.... OOP]

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

They're definitely not whitetail. I've seen whitetail up close and
personal-- I once bounced one off the windshield of a Mazda
hatchback. These look more like smallish wapiti. And the sites go on and
on about them being European and whatnot.

Margaret

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Decker, Terry D. wrote:

> It is my understanding that the red deer is, in general, smaller that the
> wapiti.  Also the term "red deer" is used to describe the summer morph of
> the North American white-tail, so you might want to check as to just
> precisely what those farms are selling.
>
> Bear
>
> > The red deer is Cervus elaphus. According to everything I've
> > read, they
> > are, or at least were, the same as the N. American elk, which
> > is usually
> > referred to as 'wapiti' to differentiate.
> >
> > Margaret
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