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Q1:This article is not about the animal that some European speakers of English know as an Elk. Why?

A1:An error was made by some explorers to North America a long time ago. They mistakenly believed that the animal they encountered was an Elch (anglized to elk), the Germanic common name for what is known in North American today as a moose. Since elk is the most commonly used name to descibe this species in its native North American range, the North American usage of the term is used in the article name. For the animal known in Europe as an elk, see moose. To further complicate matters, the Shoshone Indians and several other tribes of Native Americans referred to this species as wapiti, which is a rarely used alternative name for the animal. The key discussion that decided the title of this article is Talk:Red_deer#Name_Selection

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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 14, 2010.

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Wiki Education assignment: Environmental physiology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2023 and 6 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cclay10 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Gp318, JacksonJLandry.

— Assignment last updated by Lenaerickson (talk) 02:16, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]