Let's try again!A bison not cut off with mountains

[Geoff]

*searches through photos from this autumn*

Ok bison/buffalo wandering around Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park. That is the Grand Tetons ("Big Booobbbiees") in the background for those who wanted mountains too.

Does this work better? Personally I like the other buffalo/bison better myself!

Hmm, isnt it confusing an elk is a wapiti. And a moose is an elk... and a buffalo is a bison.

-Geoff

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/geoffdhill/buffalo2.jpg

[Boneca]

That is one beautiful picture! *steals and puts as desktop background*

(Probably the English idiot who first saw a wapiti in America had never seen an elk in his life...but I wonder where they got the word "moose" from?)

[Division56]

I ate ground bison/buffalo last month. They had it at my (upscale) grocery store.

I raped it with ketchup.

[Geoff]

I ate ground bison/buffalo last month. They had it at my (upscale) grocery store.

I raped it with ketchup.

What a shame to use ketchup. They do some excellent bison burgers at a brewpub called the Montana Ale Works which is not that far (at least in North American terms) from where these pictures were taken. No ketchup in sight on the one I had, but the taste is delicious -like a lean beef steak- when cooked to a nice medium rare!

-Geoff

[synchronous]

(Probably the English idiot who first saw a wapiti in America had never seen an elk in his life...but I wonder where they got the word "moose" from?)

The word 'moose' is of Native American origin, precisely the Algonquins. Maybe you're right. A European (English, French?) first saw the elk in America, didn't know what it was, pointed to the animal and the Algonquin said, 'Moose". And so was blessed the the wapiti with the name Moose for ever more in North America. ;) I suppose countries can call animals different common names, and neither one nor the other really be considered 'bad' or wrong.

Moose = Algonquin, meaning 'muncher of twigs'.

[Boneca]

Aha. Thank you, synchronous!
"Muncher of twigs" makes sense, because that's what they do, the elks.

[HackerX]

The word 'moose' is of Native American origin, precisely the Algonquins. Maybe you're right. A European (English, French?) first saw the elk in America, didn't know what it was, pointed to the animal and the Algonquin said, 'Moose". And so was blessed the the wapiti with the name Moose for ever more in North America. ;) I suppose countries can call animals different common names, and neither one nor the other really be considered 'bad' or wrong.

Moose = Algonquin, meaning 'muncher of twigs'.

That reminds me of the story of the naming of Kangaroos with white settlers here.

"Kangaroo" was the local botany bay aboriginal term for "I don't understand you"