Abstract
HOSTILITIES in Norway threaten some of the most interesting of European mammals, especially so the large deer, the numbers of which have already been reduced by excessive hunting, and which may be exterminated there as a result of food shortage, just as the European bison was exterminated from many of its European haunts in the War of 1914-18. In Norway, the European moose or elk (locally known as the elg or stordyr) has its strongholds in Sorlandet in the south-east, Ostlandet in the east and Trondelagen in the middle of the country. In some parts of the country it had received total protection by law and in other parts sportsmen were allowed to shoot only a limited number of bull moose during a short season at the end of September. In recent years more than a thousand moose have been shot in Norway in a year, compared with four or five hundred wild reindeer and two or three hundred red deer. There are also roe deer, lynxes and other mammals and a 20,000 acres national park existed for their protection at Sognligaard.
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Norwegian Fauna. Nature 145, 663 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145663b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145663b0