Take a look at this

[Tender Branson]

A Swedish photographer has taken this series of pictures of an elk and a statue:



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[Joe Republic]

As elk porn goes, I've seen better.

[tik 🪀✨]

There is a very specific subsection of fetishists who are furiously masturbating because of these photos.

Then again, the same could be said of the next poster.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Tender's threads are quite predictable, aren't they?

[Pingvin]

Well, this is awkward and disturbing at the same time.

[Ban my account ffs!]

That's not an elk.  It's a moose.

Moose:



Elk


I know in Europe you call moose "elk" and we call a closer relative of the deer "elk"... but we call them deer, which comes from German "Tier" which means animal.

Can anyone explain why they all have odd plural forms?  Deer, elk, and moose are all very nice but deers, elks, and meese are not apparently.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Can anyone explain why they all have odd plural forms?  Deer, elk, and moose are all very nice but deers, elks, and meese are not apparently.

In the case of moose, it's in part because it's an import from Algonquin well after English was adding new strong nouns. If it were to be pluralized it would be as mooses. While I am not clear on why English has this rule, as a general rule, game animals in English are invariant nouns that don't inflect as plural.