And let's get a caller on the line, and this is Brian - Brian with us from Elks Grove in California.

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On a recent September day, Gerlach was at the Elks lodge in Pottsdown for lunch with the Tri-County Chamber of Commerce.

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But the evidence that they survived the ice age leaves open the possibility that human hunters may have finally wiped out the elks.

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The new data collected by Dr Lister, and his colleagues, also shows that the elks did not drift through the ice age unchanged.

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The Castiles performed at sweet sixteens and Elks-club dances, at drive-in movie theatres and ShopRite ribbon cuttings, at a mobile-home park in Farmingdale, at the Matawan-Keyport Rollerdrome.

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