0 a large deer with brownish-red fur and large antlers (= horns like branches) that lives in the forests of North America --
1 a type of large deer with large, flat horns --
25 % of elk have to be condemned and in the worst hit areas more or less all roedeer.
I have no dangerous animals, apart from bull elk which can be very dangerous.
In addition to cattle, these diseases are known to occur naturally in man and in sheep, goats, mule deer, elk and farmed mink.
There were three meat courses: one was buffalo, one was elk and one was bear.
Tens of thousands of people hunt elk, and the meat they obtain is an important contribution to their households.
The metacestodes apparently do not accumulate with increasing age of the host, as is typical in elk (see below), but perhaps behavioural differences in the two species are involved.
Of 12 elk from one region, 7 (58 %) were infected ; of 30 from various regions, the metacestode was present in 25 (83 %).
Of 188 elk/moose included in the survey, 28 (15 %) were infected, with an intensity of only one to 9 cysts.
