Drunken elk rescued from Swede's apple tree

[Ranzo]

A drunken elk desperate for just one more mouthful of fermenting apples lost its balance in the attempt, leaving it stuck in an apple tree in western Sweden.

When Per Johansson of Särö, south of Gothenburg, returned home from work on Tuesday it was dark outside and the rain was coming down hard. Suddenly Johansson heard a bellowing noise from the garden next door.

“I thought at first that someone was having a laugh. Then I went over to take a look and spotted an elk stuck in an apple tree with only one leg left on the ground,” Johansson told The Local.

The unfortunate elk was desperately entangled in the tree’s branches and was kicking ferociously as Johansson approached.

“I thought it looked pretty bad so I called the police who sent out an on-call hunter. But while we were waiting, the neighbours and I started to saw down some of the branches and then the hunter arrived with a saw as well,” said Johansson.


http://www.thelocal.se/36002/20110907/

 

[YosemiteSam]

“We often see elk stuffing their faces with apples around here but this is the first time we found one perched in a tree,” he told The Local.

:laugh2:

 

[Ranzo]

:laugh2:

I have Mulberry's trees in my yard. Seasonally I get a flock of Robins and Cedar Waxwings who hang around for a couple of months, and I can count on at least one occasion as the older uneaten fruit begins to ferment the birds will get plastered on it en masse. It's quite a sight to see them loudly calling and awkwardly flying about, sometimes crashing into each other. I get the feeling they like it.

I have a hypothesis that this is how man or man-like creatures discovered that they favored ethanol's intoxicating effects--accidentally ingesting fermented fruits. Some parts of the world it might have been corn. They then invented methods of speeding up the process of fermentation and, wallah, Glenlevit Distillery is appears on the Scotttish scene. The rest is history. Something just like that...

 

[big dog cowboy]

And from what Johansson could gather, this particular animal had been on a day-long bender.

:laugh2:

 

[Dallas]

Umm that's a moose. Maybe the writer had one to many apples as well?

Elk

http://www.nhtourguide.com/images/moose_alley_4.jpg

Moose

 

[Ranzo]

In Sveeden what we call "Moose" are referred to as "Elk". So in a way you're right.

 

[Hoofbite]

In Sveeden what we call "Moose" are referred to as "Elk". So in a way you're right.

So what do they call a moose?

 

[YosemiteSam]

So what do they call a moose?

Isn't it obvious?

 

[Ranzo]

So what do they call a moose?

They call it an Elk. What we call Elk over here is a similar deer-like animal, which was posted above in the first pic. A Euro Elk is the 2nd pic Dallas posted(same as our hero in the tree). But they use "Elk" over there. We use both, depending on the sub-species. So, we have moose and elk. Oh, and did you know that the plural of moose is mice?

It's perplexing.

















I'm joking about the mice...

 

[Dallas]

They call it an Elk. What we call Elk over here is a similar deer-like animal, which was posted above in the first pic. A Euro Elk is the 2nd pic Dallas posted(same as our hero in the tree). But they use "Elk" over there. We use both, depending on the sub-species. So, we have moose and elk. Oh, and did you know that the plural of moose is mice?

It's perplexing.

















I'm joking about the mice...

"The use of "moose" in the plural is sometimes problematic. The regularly-formed plural, "mooses", is by now rare and its use may be regarded as irksome and uneuphonious. The form "meese" — formed by analogy with "goose" → "geese" — will in most cases be greeted with a snicker, and is thus generally only appropriate in humorous contexts; even pragmatics notwithstanding, because "moose" has Algonquian origins — wholly unrelated to the Germanic roots of "goose", on whose pattern the plural "meese" is formed — a strong declension plural form is etymologically inconsistent. The etymologically-consistent plural form would be "*mosinee", but this plural form sees no use in English. In ordinary common usage, "moose" is treated as an invariant noun, which means its plural is also "moose" (as with the names of many animals, such as "deer" and "fish", which are also invariant); however, this usage can sometimes be considered stilted when a group of more than one moose are considered individually, in which case avoidance of the plural may be the best option, necessitating the employment of a circumlocution, as above"."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moose

 

[jubal]

"The use of "moose" in the plural is sometimes problematic. The regularly-formed plural, "mooses", is by now rare and its use may be regarded as irksome and uneuphonious. The form "meese" — formed by analogy with "goose" → "geese" — will in most cases be greeted with a snicker, and is thus generally only appropriate in humorous contexts; even pragmatics notwithstanding, because "moose" has Algonquian origins — wholly unrelated to the Germanic roots of "goose", on whose pattern the plural "meese" is formed — a strong declension plural form is etymologically inconsistent. The etymologically-consistent plural form would be "*mosinee", but this plural form sees no use in English. In ordinary common usage, "moose" is treated as an invariant noun, which means its plural is also "moose" (as with the names of many animals, such as "deer" and "fish", which are also invariant); however, this usage can sometimes be considered stilted when a group of more than one moose are considered individually, in which case avoidance of the plural may be the best option, necessitating the employment of a circumlocution, as above"."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moose

Now that is good to know!! I've often wondered about it.