It’s the slightly moth-eaten nose fur in the last pic that gets me.

no, they stopped having mooses in the army, because the king thought it went to fast riding them. by that tine they thought that humanbodies cant travel to fast. that it would be unhealthy…

I was curious where Kostroma was, so I asked google (maps.google.com). It’s about 200 miles north/northeast of Mockba (or Moscow, as we know it better). It doesn’t have maps for that area, but it has satellite pics (!!!) and by looking at the map on the moose site and the satellite pics, I found where it must be…..

Oh the places we can go…. Virtually, if not actually…….

Mmmm, every time I look at these photos I smell maple syrup and pancakes. Where’s my LLBean boots? I gotta go chop some wood.

You have a good point there!
If russians do have both species, they can’t possibly call them both elk. True.
Maybe they even have two completely different names for both of these animals. I just assumed what I assumed since I live about 200 km from the Russian border…
I need to find me a russian and ask what they do call these creatures.
But Russians themselves can’t probably be bothered less, since they know perfectly well how to call their wildlife in their own language.

Janni-

Not trying to be arguementative or anything, but if you look
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_%28Cervus_canadensis%29

there (not entirely sure if I made it a link properly, I’m afraid.) what North Americans call an elk can also be found in Russia. (Perhaps adding more to the similar animals portion of plate tectonics, or maybe the land bridge theory. I know I digress, but hey, I find this stuff interesting.) In Russia, they would indeed have to have “moose” and “elk” to distinguish between the two. (For they are very diffrent animals.) But yeah, Europeans probably just call our moose “elk”, because they don’t have the “Siberian and American Elk”. (Cervus canadensis.)

Toungage is now my new desktop background

I spent a few minutes browsing the moose site. It’s touchingly obvious that these peoples loves their meeses. Reading made me happy like kissing moose nose.

And we got meese a-plenty in downtown Fairbanks when they come down to lower elevations for the Winter. Well, okay maybe “downtown” is a stretch, but definitely on campus. And definitely in neighborhoods.

um, that would be “your car”