Wolfs eated them
1909
They are similar. The Irish deer still lives wild in Ireland while the Irish Elk was a much larger form of deer and is long extinct! None as The Great Irish Elk.
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megaloceros aka the Irish elk Candiacervus Libralces and Stag-moose are extinct deer
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Extinct. Wolves are predators of deer. If the wolf population increases the deer population will become extinct. Log in for more information.
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No. The Irish Elk (which is extinct, by the way), were herbivores, just like today's deer and deer-related species are. The Irish Elk were prey animals, hunted down by lions, wolves and sometimes bears.
The Irish name for a great black deer, probably the Mcgaceros Hiber nicus, or Irish elk, now extinct. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Well they were extinct because people went and hunted them. and usually when people went to hunt some deer they would mistake the bear for the deer.
no more hunting seasons
Irish elk became extinct in the Late Pleistocene. Some say it was because of a later growing season and some blame prehistoric man for their demise.