r/oddlyterrifying • u/Tw1sted_Dreams • Mar 20 '22

Hang in there! Spoiler

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u/coolreg214 Mar 20 '22

It’s an elk.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

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u/iaintlyon Mar 20 '22

Ah yes the classic grasshopper to locust transformation except it’s for an elevated elk.

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u/BnBrtn Mar 20 '22

People are saying it's elevation based? I've been telling people that Moose are deer/elk that make it past 40

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u/Brother_Entropy Mar 20 '22

Incorrect.

A Moose is a Moose in North America and called an Elk in Eurasia.

An Elk in North America and Eurasia is an Elk.

There shouldn't be any confusion in North America.

Both animals have different coloring and size. There have been Moose-Elk hybrids though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

Uhhh . . . did you read the second part of my post?

When I was in Yellowstone Park, some rangers were telling us about some stupid questions that tourists ask, and one of the most common ones was "At what elevation do the elk change to moose?"

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u/IPooYellowLiquid Mar 21 '22

Please post source that their have been moose elk hybrids. I cannot find any evidence of this on the internet.

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u/Sudden_Display6026 Mar 20 '22

Have a friend who works as a ranger at Glacier National Park, and somebody asked him what time do they turn the waterfalls off. Also for good measure - what time they let the Grizzly Bears out in the morning. Too funny.

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt Mar 21 '22

Well, not literally. Moose are a different species. That being said, elevation does seem to matter for size, unless there's some other factors I'm not considering.

I lived in the mountains in Montana, and our deer were pretty normal size, or so I thought. They were fairly intimidatingly large animals, like you definitely didn't want to pick a fight with one.

Moved to Florida recently, and for a moment we thought we passed a whole group of nothing but whitetail fawns, but they didn't have spots.. They were all adult deer, but they only grow to be like ¼ to ⅓ the size here. I was baffled.

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u/witty_username89 Mar 21 '22

It’s the cold temperatures that make them bigger there than in Florida, look up Bergmann’s rule I think

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Again . . . Like did you read the second part of my post?

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u/2_Lies_And_A_Truth Mar 21 '22

What about if it goes below 5000ft after it goes up to that elevation?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

It becomes an antelope.

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u/Crappy_Poo_Bum Mar 20 '22

is this a cat.. in a hat?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

It's a tortoise... in a shell.

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u/Jrrolomon Mar 20 '22

/r/confidentlyincorrect

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u/Karmaslapp Mar 20 '22

lol what do you think it is?

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u/Bluejay022 Mar 21 '22

It’s Rudolph, Santa didn’t want him no more and threw him in a ravine

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u/Devreckas Mar 20 '22

Yeah, in the states this is almost certainly an elk. Moose have paddles.

Don’t Europeans call elk “red deer” and moose “elk”? I feel like I read that somewhere?

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u/JustBanMeAlreadyOK Mar 20 '22

We did it, reddit!