IN MARCH 2015, braving the bitter cold of a Yellowstone winter to report on research being carried out there on wolves, your correspondent chanced upon a wolf pack as it attacked and killed a deer of the species known in North America as "elk". (These are actually a type of red deer. True elk are called "moose" in North America.) Days later, all that remained was a bloody skeleton and a spectacular set of antlers.
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