The elk (or moose) was a common sight across Britain before disappearing 8,000 years ago, Sharing forests and woodland clearings with roe deer, aurochs, wolves and wild cats.

Did moose ever live in the UK?

Last seen several thousand years ago loping through the ancient forests and glens of Scotland, two moose have arrived at a remote reserve in the Highlands as part of plans to reintroduce wild animals now extinct in the UK.

Did Scotland ever have moose?

The European elk - popularly known as the "moose" - became extinct in Scotland in the tenth century. But an elk calf has now been successfully reared at the Alla-dale Wilderness Reserve near Ardgay in Sutherland, four years after a breeding pair of European elk were imported to the estate from north Sweden.