Re: Royal Marriage in Sweden next year?

On Oct 20, 3:40 pm, Jan Böhme <jan.bo...@xxxxx> wrote:
On 20 Okt, 18:05, Tim <A.Windem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 20, 11:32 am, "Leif" <leif.anders...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just out of curiousity , at the elk hunt, was the King hunting what
would be known in North America as 'moose' or what would be known in
the British Isles as 'red deer' ?-

What you would call "moose". Our elk is slightly smaller than the
North American "moose", but it is considered as the same speies.

Jan Böhme

The North American moose is the largest member of the deer family. The
North American elk is a very different animal though I do not know
whether they might be in the same genus. A Google image search will
show the differences immediately.

.

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