Summary: <p>In which your host calls her own podcast by the wrong name! And doesn’t catch it until it’s too late to change (i.e. five minutes ago). This week’s episode of Strange Animals Podcast is about the Irish Elk specifically and the Pleistocene era in general, especially as regards to humans spreading out across the world from Africa. Did the Irish elk’s enormous antlers really have anything to do with its extinction? And is it really for-sure extinct? (Spoiler alerts: no and yes.)</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-73" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/irish-elk-facts-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>The Irish elk (more accurately called the giant deer) could stand as tall as seven feet high at the shoulder.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-74" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Irish_elk__Megaloceros_giganteus-300x207.png" alt="" width="300" height="207"></p>
