[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Carol's questions for Steve V.

[KEN ADAMS]

The largest deer as far as i know is the moose (N Am) Elk (Europe). A male moose is definately a bull moose.
KEN




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From: zanooda2 <zanooda2 at yahoo.com>
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009 7:28:22 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Carol's questions for Steve V.


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter@ yahoogroups. com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10@ ...> wrote:

> I think this may be one of those UK/US linguistic things. 
> Locally, we certainly talk about fawns and I can't recall 
> hearing buck used very much at all.

zanooda:

That may be :-). It just seems a little strange if you, for instance,
call a male fallow deer "a stag" :-). Fallow deer are kind of small
and cute, and they don't look "that" impressive or majestic, even with
big antlers :-):

http://i156. photobucket. com/albums/ t32/FiberFantasi es/BlogPhotos/ BribingFallowDee r.jpg

Wikipedia also says that males and females of the largest deer (I
don't know whom they mean, elk, maybe?) are called like cattle - bulls
and cows :-).

P.S. A few weeks ago some crazy guy killed a white-tailed deer that
lived in a park where we used to go for walks ;-(. Park visitors
always loved that deer, he was very tame and all. His name was
"Mr.Buck", BTW ... ;-(.

 

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