WHOA THIS IS A-MOOS-ING

Älgarna är överallt! RÄDDA OSS! HJÄLP!

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Tyvärr kan jag inte. I live on the other side of the world.

@ThatKawaiiKiwi_ Helvete
XD

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*Raises an eyebrow* Ursäkta mig? *Smirks and cracks my knuckles* Slåss mot mig! Jag vågar att du kommer till mig!

@ThatKawaiiKiwi_ *backs off* Woah, woah there
I'm neutral

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*Laughs* I'm only kidding. Anyways, for music class. Today we had to do a quiz and one of the questions was "Name the first names of the group ABBA" and I was like 'SWEDEN! BOI! YOU BETTER HELP ME WITH DIS'....

@ThatKawaiiKiwi_ *starts playing Dancing Queen and plases IKEA furniture in a circle* *Draws the Swedish flag in the circle* "IN THE NAME OF IKEA AND PARANOIA, I SUMMON YOU, SWEDEN!!!"

Sweden: Stop screaming.

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*Scrolls down some comments on my phone and sees this...one message.* OML! *Reads it to you and Sweden* Sweden stands for Smoke. Weed. Every. Day. Every. Night...What a horrible comment.

New Zealand: *Happily smiles at Sweden* Kea in a Kia driving to IKEA. (IMAGINE THAT XDDD)

@ThatKawaiiKiwi_ Sweden: I am DISCUSTED, I am REVOLTED. I've dedicated my WHOLE LIFE to someone I Think they call god? Anyways, FÖR I HELVETE, AND THIS IS THE THANK'S I GET?!! *crawls inside an IKEA box*

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New Zealand: Uh Mr Sweden. *Looks inside the IKEA box* You...uh....well. Thank you very much...Idk. Sorry but if you really need to calm down. *Gently throws L&P at Sweden* Try it. It's good~!

@ThatKawaiiKiwi_ Sweden: *mumbles* People on the internet nowdays! just making fun of Everything. what's wrong with my name?! There's nothing wrong with my name! How dare they?! God, so Jävla rude I can't belive it. They're even worse than Denm- okay no, Denmark is worse but ugh, god.

In Sweden these animals are called "Elk". In Canada and the USA, they are called moose, and the Wapiti is called Elk.

@Danelaw Actually, it´s "älg" in Swedish? (In Sweden --> Swedish)

@Danelaw no, It's called "Älg"

@Danelaw What do they call Elk then?
Edit: Oh that's what that Wapiti is... so how would you tell them apart if they were both Elk?
Edit2: Sheesh the entimology... Elk referred to a deer as big as a horse and the English mostly didn't know what one looked like so they applied it to the Elk (Wapiti). Then for moose they used the local name for it. So we should be calling Moose "Elk" and Elk "Wapiti".

Seems legit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose#Populations
In Canada : There are an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 moose [44] with 150,000 in Newfoundland in 2007 descended from just four that were introduced in the 1900s.[45]
In United States : probably around 300,000, as follows:
Alaska: The state's Department of Fish and Game estimated 200,000 in 2011.[46]
Northeast: A wildlife ecologist estimated 50,000 in New York and New England in 2007, with expansion expected.[47]
Rocky Mountain states: Wyoming is said to have the largest share in its 6-state region, and its Fish and Game Commission estimated 7,692 in 2009.Upper Midwest: Michigan estimated 433 (in its Upper Peninsula) in 2011,[49] Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 20–40 (close to its UP border with Michigan) in 2003, Minnesota 5600 in its northeast in 2010,[50] and under 100 in its northwest in 2009;[51] North Dakota closed, due to low moose population, one of its moose-hunting (geographic) units in 2011, and issued 162 single-kill licenses to hunters, each restricted to one of the remaining nine units.[52]
Finland : In 2009, there was a summer population of 115,000 moose.[53]
Norway : In 2007, there were some 120,000 moose.[citation needed]
Latvia : in 2015, there were 21,000 moose.[54]
Estonia : 13,260 individuals[55]
Poland : 2,800 individuals[56]
Czech Republic : maximum of 50 animals[56]
Russia : In 2008, there were approximately 730,000 moose.[citation needed]
Sweden : Summer population is estimated to be 300,000–400,000 moose. Around 100,000 are shot each fall

Sweden's population is 9,858,794. Among the other serious competitors, Canada's is 36,048,521, Finland's 5,486,125, and Norway's 5,214,900. Assuming Sweden's numbers are correct (and surely they are if they're killing that many every year, I can't imagine that such a huge hunt would be sustainable with lower numbers) then they would take the #1 slot per capita.

You know what this means, right? Sweden must have some relatives of Bullwinkle J. Moose!

But... What's the squirrel country then?

What about Canada?

@Mystery0028 I think the key word is "per capita". Canada has three times the number of people, but less than three times the number of moose.

Moose are scary .. i mean they r so scary they don't even have a plural that's how scary they are! although if we just started calling them Meese it would make them more lovable, IMO

@KujalaD13 Well, they DO cause quite a few deaths here... but only to people in cars. Lately Elk/Moose has been second to ticks though.

Do they have moose meat dishes in Sweden? And what does it taste like?

I've had elk, buffalo, kangaroo, ostrich, rabbit, (deer) venison and frog legs.

@CaliforniaAmazon Yes wo do have moose dishes here in sweden. It is quite popular in the north. It taste really good if you prepare it good.

@CaliforniaAmazon Moose is pretty similar to elk. Much closer than either is to venison.

We have such silly amounts of moose (and other types of deer) because we have a patheticly small wolf population. If wolves had been allowed to have an actual viable population we would have far fewer moose per capita.

@fiendishrabbit Won't the surplus of food allow wolf population to boom? Do people hunt the wolves?

@VoidTorcher If you're a wolf in Sweden you have a 50/50 chance of dying due to illegal hunting (according to BRÅ). At the same time the Swedish government has decided to limit the Swedish population of wolves to 210 individuals. As such about 150 wolves have been shot through licensed hunting the last 6 years.
210 individuals is neither healthy, nor a good estimate of the kind of population Sweden could/should support, Compare to Romania that has a population of 2500 wolves in a much smaller geographic area.

@fiendishrabbit Yeah, that massive population of moose could easily support at least 10 times as many wolves. Why would they limit it like that?

@VoidTorcher Heh. Because:

This is a huge social conflict in Sweden. There are many who think we should have far more wolves. Most of these live in cities. Some of these are very vocal. The forest industry would love more wolves and fewer moose (called älg in Sweden, not elk), because less damage to trees. On the other hand, there are the hunters, who want a huge moose population and very few wolves. They have the support of farmers and many people living in the countryside. They also have guns. No politician really dares touch this infected issue, and the hunters keep getting what they want.

@VoidTorcher Wolves are a bit of a sore subject in Nordic countries. For farmers they are a bit of a problem, but most people would want to keep a healthy population alive, because you know nature. In Finland we also have a bigger problem from wolfdogs (half wolf half dog) that come from Russia. They have lots of stray dogs that mate with wolves and the pups usually don't fear humans, but are still feral like wolves. Let's just say it's a clusterfuck all around.

Honestly, I'm surprised that Canada and Russia would be so few - there's so much area of low population density forest. But hey, this is what the available numbers are

@Karen Wouldn't that mean that Sweden also has the most per area of land? (moose per km2) Since it has such a surprisingly high number and is quite a bit smaller than Russia or Canada?

@Karen Sweden's moose population is artificially high due to the lack of wolves. If Sweden's wolf population were allowed to grow, moose populations would drop down to similar density levels as Canada and Russia.