duckrvr_at_... wrote:
>
> At 11:31 AM 5/17/97 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >The Swedish army actually held a Ekl ridden cavalry compant some time in
> >the 1500-1700 (or something like that. They scared the shit out of the
> >Germans (and most other mid to south Europeans too), as they nevar had
> >seen any elks before and they are noticably larger than horses and quite
> >agressive when irritadet (ie in battle).
>
> I think it was WWII when the Swedes were using elk-drawn sleds to
> remove casualties from the front line. There was an elk that was decorated
> after pulling several unconscious soldiers more than 20 miles to the
> hospital over rough terrain without direction with a broken leg. I think
> the driver was killed in the explosion that injured the elk. The Elk was
> given one of the highest honors the army had to give, and there were
> pictures of the elk with a medal hanging off of its antlers on the front of
> several newspapers.
> The elk was subsequently captured and Hitler ordered it executed.
> What a wanker.
>
> Temp
We never fought in WWII so I doubt that. There have probably been some
experiments with domestic elks in history (I can't look up any
references now)
but it must have been a lot of problems and they were probably all
killed
in some war abroad. It must have been much easier to stick with horses
which
they had plenty of back then. Horses knows at least their way home which
the one tame elk I've heard of also did when the fence broke and it ran
into the forests.
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Received on Mon May 19 1997 - 15:18:28 UTC