This has been making the rounds for the past couple days now, but it is so wonderfully amusing--even touching, if you're of a certain bent...and I'm bent. It involves a peculiar elk who has been hanging around a ranch in British Columbia for several years:
For the first two years, it seemed too shy to make a move. That all changed this year, however, when the huge bull elk finally got up to the nerve to approach Messner's cows.
"This year, he decided to go for it," Messner, the owner of 100 Mile Ranch, told the Canadian Press. The Elk dominated the bull cows, in both size and aggression, which gave him a definite advantage during rutting season, when he found a frequent "partner" in one particularly frisky, if unconventional, cow.
"If you were there watching, it would be an X-rated movie. Several times a day," Messner added.
Apparently, the elk began to attract the attention of hunters who were admiring his rack. Fearing for his safety, and in spite of the fact that hunting is illegal in British Columbia, conservationists removed the elk's antlers and relocated him a dozen miles outside of town. The ranch owner expects him to find his way back to his beloved, and, perverse as it may be, I hope he's right.
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