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Are they cow elks because they are domesticated? So reindeer are really just cow deer?

Looked it up. A cow can refer to the mature female of any kind of cattle. The rein in reindeer specifically refers to domestication. So these are also reinelk.

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Cows are the females. Bulls are the males.

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But when referring to the type of animal "cows" both are cows in that case because that qualifies as a second definition of cow. I was confused because my brain went straight for the kind of animal rather than the other use.

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I’m just saying female elk are cows and male elk are bulls.