From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Sat 03 Sep 1994 - 03:39:10 EEST
Sandy persists in His Own Private Nomenclature, in particular for
C. canadensis, which no-one would get peeved or confused about if they
were refered to as "wapiti":
> > Apparently you know little about Cervus elaphus. They are
> > HUGE and shaggy, with needle-sharp horns, excellent swimmers, and
> > they can be mean. Bull elk (they're not called "bucks") make a sound
> > during the rut that can only be described as a roar.
Joerg:
> If this (and your cthulhuid story) is the case, I don't think we have
> this beast over here in Germany. True, the red deer does something
> which is described (in German) as "roehren", which seems to be somewhat
> diminutive for "to roar", but while looking somewhat royal, the red deer
> is too skittish to be considered majestic.
I knew Joerg and I had agreed too long on this thread: the Monarch of the Glen, not majestic? Maybe the Teutonic types have some other species too, C. scitticus. ;-) Granted, they don't go around charging emplaced artillery positions, but maybe that just makes them non-stupid. Well, not all _that_ stupid.
> What I mean is that the beasts of Ygg's isles are the subarctic species
> of large deer with spoon-like antlers a sub-average-sized man can walk
> under.
Is this plausible for a bunch of small, isolated islands? Not many Alces alces on the shetlands, are there?
Alex.
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