Posted on 03/06/2014 10:57:01 AM PST by Red Badger
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Check their livers. You’ll find a parasite. Too easy.
Hamburger prices?
“Biting sister with brain worms, maybe..................”
Brain worms kan be very nasti.
There has been a similar (though less dramatic) decline in the moose population in New Hampshire, the result of a huge increase in ticks. Thousands feed on a single moose, weakening them and making the animal more susceptible to predators, or death from other illnesses.
Hmmm...never had this problem when you could use DDT. After this brutally cold winter, a good application of insecticide would put quite a dent in the tick problem. Fewer ticks = more moose, at least in New Hampshire.
During my Air Force days, I had friends stationed at Loring AFB in northern Maine. The base was a SAC installation, it was a good location for B-52s and KC-135s because it put them a little closer to the Soviet Union.
There were moose on Loring, and some of them liked to wander out on the runway. I’m told there were more than a few close calls between a 1,500 pound moose and a B-52 lumbering down the runway. The moose would sit there, chewing its cud and watch the approaching Buff before strolling off at the last possible moment.
They didn’t have FENCES?..................
Yep! :-)
Just the other day I was standing on our deck watching a yearling moose casually meandering down our back road between houses, munching away on young birch trees.
Nice place to live if you can see that from your deck. I like moose as long as I don’t come near a grumpy cow.
DNR estimates Minn. moose population at 4,350; says trend shows no significant change
http://www.startribune.com/local/245574681.html
they undercounted them.
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If you shoot moose, the moose population disappears.
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They wuz hidin’ in the snows...........................
So far, they said, a fifth of the adults have died — with predators, infections, parasites, or injuries listed as causes. And 74 percent of the calves died, a number that surprised researchers. The greatest number of calf deaths were attributed to wolves and bears. But another 11 died as a result of being collared: Nine were abandoned by their mothers, one died after the mother stepped on it during the collaring attempt, and the 11th died for unknown reasons.
http://www.startribune.com/local/245634081.html
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