These are not elk grazing here in the wetlands of Yancheng in Jiangsu Province – even if the English name „elk“ might suggest so. In North America, however, the elk we know in Europe are called „moose.“ This is a species of East Asian deer, a subspecies of the wapiti. The name wapiti („white rump“) comes from the Shawnee Indians. In Chinese, they are called Milu 麋鹿, which translates as … elk.