If you’re going to introduce and animal make it something easy to extract like a dik-dik
Elk in Scotland again?
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Norfolk Deer Search
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Another slow day at the SD coal face?
Day-job interferes - next out Friday
Norfolk Deer Search
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I’m on fallow in the morningDay-job interferes - next out Friday
I would go along with that. I do have a .270
HonestJohn
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Holyrood is already full of them
I’ll help extract…
We actually had a semi serious conversation in my department about what it would take to (a) resurrect mammoths, and (b) genetically engineer them to be small enough to survive in modern Scotland.
Someone did some back of the envelope maths, and decided that if we could get them down to about 300kg, it would be viable.
Just think! Herds of mini mammoths gallumphing over the moors!
alberta boy
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I had a feeling that was what the OP was referring to . I love Moose / Elg , but introducing them into the UK might be problematic . I think focusing on your existing species and improving habitat would be time better spent .
Project aiming to return elk to UK moves forward
Work to assess the feasibility of bringing the species back to the UK is under way.www.bbc.co.uk
AB
alberta boy
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The correct term is Swamp Donkey or Jughead , or Muswa if you're Cree ( my neighbours ) lol .
AB
2Ll’s
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Agreed, I thought the reintroduction of Kites was a good thing but they seem to have no cap on when to stop, still going on and hundreds around now, total overpopulation because we humans got involved and messed with it.
The BBC didn’t get it wrong. They called it an elk, which it is.Hmmm…
If you look at the confusion covered by the BBC gets it wrong thread over the identification of a moose and an elk what chance have the Scots when they already have a moose (loose about the hoose)?
Ye ken Ken?
If the yanks want to muddle everything up by calling wapiti elk that's their business. In the meantime, the European elk remains exactly that.
And if the BBC want to call an elk a moose, that's fine too, because unless you're a yank that's what it is.
Woodenbeam
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Well income from ****ty ideas is now required to replace lost income from the oil industry they’re no longer allowed to get due to yet more ****ty ideas from ****s who should have been ****ted at birth……….
By heck this is gonna be a good day
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They’re not worth the bother.
Does anyone have some spare wire cutters? Asking for a friend.I sense a lot of negativity
Did you not read the bit where it says they are fenced in and simply could not escape
So it's clearly a completely reversible decision and we could easily just round them all up if we decided differently
alberta boy
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Moose is actually a Canadian first Nations term, Cree to be exact . It's a derivative of Muswa , which means twig eater in Cree . It's perfectly proper to call them Elg in Europe though . We also call Elk by their native name here , Wapiti . I refer to them as Elk when discussing them with Americans or British and European hunters ......... Sorry , stalkers . It gets confusing sometimes lol .
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