Elentier

I find out there is an animal called the elenantilope. it lives in the Savannah and is overhunted. I also find out that elen is an old poetic word for elk, or moose, no longer used. In a big dictionary in the library i read that elen is short for elentier and formerly das seltener, which means the rare one. maybe this is becuase the elks died out in germany in the 13hundreds.