[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

[KEN ADAMS]

The term Buck derives from the Afrikaans, post Dutch, word Bok. It is commonly used in Africa today to refer to many ( especially male)  Antelope whch although Ungulates are in a taxonomically different group to deer. It may be that it is used in the United states today  because of the Dutch ancestry and/or because of the presnce in the United States of a slightly displaced (zoologically) deer called the antelope.
KEN


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