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The plural of mongoose is mongooses or sometimes mongeese. Mongeese is a back-formation by analogy to goose / geese and is often used in a jocular context. The form meese is sometimes also used humorously as the plural of moose—normally moose or mooses—or even of mouse.
A guy on #Jeopardy just guessed that the plural of moose was “#Meese” and I am totally here for it. He should get extra points for that. — #PhillyCats #AntifaType. Funk aroun an find out ...
One species, Père David's deer, is extinct in the wild, and one, Schomburgk's deer, went extinct in 1938. The fifty-five species of Cervidae are split into nineteen genera within two subfamilies : Capreolinae (New World deer) and Cervinae (Old World deer).
Alces is a genus of artiodactyl mammals, that includes the largest species of the deer family. [1] There are two species in genus: the moose (Alces alces) and the fossil Alces gallicus (also known as the Gallic moose), that existed in the Pleistocene about 2 million years ago.
Under the category of “Plurals That Don't End in S,” he was given the clue: Moose. He responded, “What are meese?” While more than one goose are geese, multiple moose are not meese.
Tuesday’s "Jeopardy!" proved that even the smartest contestants don’t know everything.
Moose, Alces alces. Moose hunting season in October is close to a national pastime. Fallow deer; Red deer; Roe deer; Mountain hare; Boar in Denmark and southern Sweden. (Once hunted to extinction, boars were re-introduced in the late 20th century and are now considered a pest by farmers, but an asset by hunters.) Rock ptarmigan; Willow ...
A Neolithic painting of deer hunting from Spain A Roman mosaic depicting the goddess Diana deer hunting. Deer hunting is hunting deer for meat and sport, and, formerly, for producing buckskin hides, an activity which dates back tens of thousands of years. Venison, the name for deer meat, is a nutritious and natural food source of animal protein ...