[Sca-cooks] Elk, red deer, tomato, tomahto, doughnut, napkin (was OT OOP Taxonomy)

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I could buy from a local (where local is read to mean "within a two-hour
drive") farmer who sells red deer/elk cross venison, and just cover all
the bases that way. ;-)

The red deer  (which they also sell) is slightly cheaper than straight
elk, by about $3/lb, so if I do game meat at all, it will probably be
that. The dearth of hunters in the barony make it chancy to depend on the
luck of the hunt for a 12th Night feast.

And it's still Adamantius's fault.

Margaret


On Fri, 24 May 2002, Decker, Terry D. wrote:

[snip]
>
> The C. canadiensis/C. elaphus debate is perennial.  The animals are closely
> related, but the variations between the North American and European
> populations suggest that speciation has occurred.  On average, the wapiti is
> 2 to 3 times larger than the red deer and requires a higher percentage of
> its adult mass before sexual maturation.  By "lumping" and organizing wapiti
> subspecies by size, a case can be made that the red deer is the smallest of
> the species, and because of the taxonomic conventions, C. elaphus has
> precedence over C. canadiensis.
>
> As an endnote, I found a reference to the dispute from the American Museum
> of Natural History, which recognizes that the dispute exists and ignores it,
> by labelling the exhibit, American elk (wapiti).
>
> Bear
>
>
> > Clearly we are reading different sources. Just out of
> > curiosity, where are
> > you finding your info?
> >
> > Margaret
> >