More linguistic confusion--deer, elk, and moose

[Carol]

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

Carol responds:

Most people, though, don't think of moose (what Europeans call elk) as
deer even though they're a member of the deer family. They look less
like deer than American elk do. (Male elk are also called bulls in the
U.S.)

I started to mention American deer in another post but forgot to
complete my sentence. The only two varieties that I know of are mule
deer and white-tailed deer, which are smaller than the English red
deer but possibly larger than the fallow deer (I don't know; I'm
guessing). The males of both species are called bucks, the females
does, and the babies, regardless of sex, fawns. (Only the fawns have
spots, unlike the fallow deer.)

Carol, who just discovered through a bit of Googling that English red
deer and American elk are different subspecies of the same species,
Cervus elaphus, but American elk are larger and more brownish

http://www.suwanneeriverranch.com/reddeer.htm