(megalocerus)irish elk

[silent killer]

gday guys and girls i was just looking on the net and i hapend to come acros this species of deer i reckon if it were still about it would be an awsome animal to hunt definatly a big game animal here is a few pics
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z69/chabels/EAPAICALZHG30CAG2VQXVCA7Q17E0CA9YBJ.jpg
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z69/chabels/3Y0ALCAI8VT56CA6U60QZCA5N8IV1CALHRA.jpg
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z69/chabels/irishdeer161x189.gif
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z69/chabels/4TB2QCA3P22SUCAZ3Q333CAWN9X87CAWUWC.jpg
i just thought i would share this with everyone as i found it interesting......
....Cheers alex......

[Evil Taco]

mate only one of the pics is coming up...(atleast for me)
still a wikid looking deer, looks similar to moose...

[Gulf Addict]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Elk

Above is a link to some more details about it. It would have been an impressive beast to hunt.

[spiderbait24]

ive seen that deer on walking with beasts, awsome looking thing.

[XTfreak]

I think Sparra arrowed one of them when he was a young lad:P
Bill

[troy]

The Giant Deer is famous for its formidable size (about 2.1 meters or 7 feet tall at the shoulders), and in particular for having the largest antlers of any known cervid (a maximum of 3.65 meters/12 feet from tip to tip and weighing up to 90 pounds).

That's one hell of a chunk of venison!

[Glenn]

I saw a video years ago and it showed a vertebrae of an irish elk with a stone arrow arrowhead imbedded in it. The experts said that it was 5,000 years old and the arrow would have cut the elks main artery running down the backbone and death would have been very quick...Glenn...