Re: The absurdity, the absurdity (was: Cooperating theropods?)

[Chris Campbell <sankarah@ou.edu>]

Betty Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > > > "Typical male response?"  I'd check my sources before making comments
> > > > like this.  You just wind up looking really stupid.  Female bison and
> > > > buffalo carry horns.  Most, but not all, genera of antelope also carry
> > > > horns. Female elk and moose (which are the same species, which I should
> > > > have remembered but didn't), like most cervids, do not have antlers.
> > > > Reindeer (or caribou, if you prefer), another prey species of wolves, do
> > > > indeed have antlers.
> >> since CHRIS posted a list of horned and antlered animals where 2 out of
> >> 5 were sexually dimorphic so that fully half that species had no antlers
> >> whatsoever, I think CHRIS had better check his sources (like who said
> >> what) or wind up looking etc.
> > No, only one was sexually dimorphic.  And I never said they weren't.
> > Elk and moose, FYI, are the same animal.  One's just a European name.  I
> > never said anything that was incorrect; you said that all of these
> > animals lacked horns (or antlers, as the case may be), which is not the
> > case.
> 
> I'm really tempted here to use your own methods but...
> Having encountered BOTH animals in the wild I assure you they are
> different animals.

I suggest you tell all the taxonomists of this little fact.

> Moose are spatulated-antlered animals that live near ponds in the North
> feeding on pond weeds-the males have beards.  And they're MUCH bigger
> than elk.

ANd they're called elk in Europe.  Lots of things are called elk. 
Doesn't mean they allo *are* elk.

> Elk look like big Red deer.  We have Tule Elk closest to us here in
> California.

And they're classified as deer of some sort, not elk per se.  This is a
common usage/technical usage thing.
 
Chris