Bob Spoklie, a longtime elk rancher near Kalispell, who was a founder of the 1, 600-member North American Elk Breeders, says he thinks that chronic wasting disease is overblown.
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The controversy is what subspecies of red deer, under the former one-species classification " Cervus elaphus ", belong to European Red Deer, and which belong to Wapiti / American Elk.
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What we know as the inoffensive town of Croton-on-Hudson is in this world an American Elks Club sign proclaims proudly : " " Welcome to Croton-on-Hudson, home of the Final Solution!
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And in Platte City, at the offices of the North American Elk Breeders Association, there's a call for the federal government to reimburse ranchers forced to destroy exotic livestock to keep a brain-rotting disease in check.
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User Altaileopard is classifying the Shou / Tibetan Red Deer and MacNeill's Deer as subspecies of American Elk / Wapiti ( Cervus canadensis ), and classifying the Kashmir Stag, Bactrian Deer, and Yarkand Deer as subsecies European Red Deer solely based on one paper by Ludt.
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The animal, a relative of the North American elk, was last reported in a Western publication in the 1940s, and the deer was subsequently listed as " probably extinct " by the World Conservation Union, said the scientist, Dr . George B . Schaller, the director for science at the conservation group.
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In contrast to the Yarkand deer, which has a light sandy coat, the Bactrian deer has a darker, grayish-brown coat pattern with darker legs, head, and neck ( most noticeable in males ) that resembles the coat of the American elk or wapitis, which is why this subspecies is sometimes called the " Bactrian wapiti ".
