Wednesday, 25 May 2011  Elk, Water Horses and Nessie  What is
the Loch Ness Monster? Why, it is a Water Horse, of course. That
may not answer some of the more scientific questions, but before
the Loch Ness Monster there was the Each Uisge as they called it
in the native tongue centuries before.  Dale Drinnon offers an
interesting theory that distribution of lake monsters has a good
correlation with distribution of elk (or moose as they are also
known by). His thoughts can be found here.  No doubt that elk
have been mistaken for lake monsters but can one extrapolate the
whole way to make them one and the same? The fact that some
countries called elk "water horses" is an interesting point but
then again hippopotami are literally called "river horses" but
look nothing like long necked lake monsters. That did not stop
some Scottish academics of old speculating superficially that
the Each Uisge may have had its root in an extinct hippo. This
theory is nonsense but the Elk theory demands more respect since
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