Have you noticed elk dialects?

[Ben Long]

A recent piece I wrote for MeatEater. Turns out elk bugle in dialects. Have you noticed them in your hunts?

Study: Elk Bugle in Local Dialects

Blue whales have them. Songbirds have them. Turns out bugling bull elk have them too. Not just a song of their species, but local dialects that separates their tunes from others in geographic locations. In a discovery that may stir the coals of campfire debates for many Septembers to come...

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[elkduds]

Some of the spikes end with "y'all."

 

[Southern Elk]

So that’s why I suck at calling. They don’t like my southern accent.

 

[BackofBeyond]

So does that mean that Tule Elk end every bugle with “brah?”

 

[hank4elk]

I don't roll my R's enough for NM elk...bulls, the cows love me.