[Talisker]

I saw one in grande titons national park scratching his back on a branch about ten feet up.

Fairly alarming and impressive at the same time. Thing was gigantic.

[Daffynition]

When we lived on a spring-fed lake, years ago, kids were always eager to go ice skating ...I'd hear *Mom it's OK to skate* from the boys when they were 8,9,10ish.

I couldn't trust their judgment, so I'd go out to *test* the ice...well, we wandered down to the dam, shallow, clear ice and found a doe frozen under the ice. It transfixed us. Don't know if she had [maybe] been hit by a car, got stuck in some shallow slush on the edge ...but there she was frozen in time.

Strange. Danged fascinating.

[Daffynition]

Poor moose a besieged by insects that itch them; they can develop a brain worm disease and usually suffer an awful death.

http://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/moose-suffers-from-cousins-parasite/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/manic-moose-vermont-rampage-brain-worm-blame-game-warden-article-1.1152261