Monday, 16 November 2009

The European elk


One animal here in Luleå is the elk. The elk is quite big and have horns coming out of the forehead. It is one of the largest species of deer in the world. The main food for the elk is sprout, leaves and small twigs. The elk mainly lives for it self. All though, sometime during the winter miner flocks can appear. The size of the elk is different depending on gender, underspecies and the enviorment the elk is living in. For example, the elks up here in the north is in general bigger than the ones that we have in the southern parts of Sweden.

For more information about elks, USE GOOGLE :)
/ Anna, Jesper and Sara

ps. This animal is sometimes called the moose, there exists a disambuguation of the word since a deer in Canada is also called elk, however we have chosen to use the word elk here since it is moore similar to the Swedish word 'älg'. ds.

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