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Musk ox invasion keeps Nome wildlife managers busy
Anchorage Daily News ^ | comJuly 2, 2014 | SEAN DOOGAN

Posted on 07/03/2014 11:39:53 AM PDT by skeptoid

Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two.

Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alaska; doomage; elk; freepun; hoth; koalaoil; monkeyfacerules; moose; muskox; nome; penguinhumor; undeadthread
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To: NoCmpromiz; ColdOne
He must not like big psychedelic colored moths.. ;-)

What's wrong with him? Most dogs are crazy about those!

81 posted on 07/05/2014 4:43:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick (If I die before I wake, feed Jake.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Tax-chick

LOL.... he sniffed it, thought about it for a second, almost ate it then sniffed it again left it alone and then walked to the front door.

It is a nice pic. Will post soon.


82 posted on 07/05/2014 4:54:35 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: ColdOne

Good choice. It might have made him sick.


83 posted on 07/05/2014 4:57:50 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Quizas.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Tax-chick

http://s754.photobucket.com/user/bluebird104/media/Mothbuckandmonkonwheel069_zps6fd7f423.jpg.html?state=replace


84 posted on 07/05/2014 5:09:23 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: ColdOne; NoCmpromiz
Callosamia promethea, the Promethea Silkmoth.
85 posted on 07/05/2014 5:15:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Quizas.)
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To: Tax-chick; ColdOne; NoCmpromiz

Hyalophora cecropia.
A saturnid moth.


86 posted on 07/05/2014 5:18:07 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Yeah, you’re right.


87 posted on 07/05/2014 5:19:46 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Quizas.)
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To: Tax-chick; ColdOne; NoCmpromiz

Male moth too.
I’ve never seen one personally.
But I have seen several Luna moths.


88 posted on 07/05/2014 5:25:42 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare; Tax-chick; ColdOne
What he said...

This is the Promethea Silkmoth, also a saturniid..


89 posted on 07/05/2014 5:38:03 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Darksheare
Had them all the time back in Ohio in my youth..

Their caterpillars are, um, interesting also... Looks like something from a bad acid trip. ;-)


90 posted on 07/05/2014 5:44:37 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; ColdOne; Tax-chick

And what pops to mind?
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lmZRRqF6wA


91 posted on 07/05/2014 5:46:43 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: NoCmpromiz; NicknamedBob

And that is what pops to mind when I read nnb’s song of the spiderbots.


92 posted on 07/05/2014 5:49:47 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Monkey Face
:-)

IIRC, don't you also like Kahlua and rum in your adult beverages?

93 posted on 07/05/2014 5:54:10 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3176466/posts?page=1
Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to have children.


94 posted on 07/05/2014 7:52:25 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Let be the first say. We musk do something! Well I have not read the thread yet so this is the first I saw it. Well I saw it whe I typed it. Do we type or do they call it keyboarding now.


95 posted on 07/05/2014 8:34:38 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Them there voices may not be real but they sure have some fun Ideas.)
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To: ThomasThomas

Key broading, typing from arms length with one hand while performing another task with the other.
Keybaffled, somebody changed the keyboard mapping...again.


96 posted on 07/05/2014 9:05:04 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...

97 posted on 07/06/2014 3:28:16 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Quizas.)
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To: Darksheare; NoCmpromiz
"And that is what pops to mind when I read nnb’s song of the spiderbots."

Song of the Spider Robot

I have some work to do up here. You folks who live down there,
Would not enjoy the job conditions, first of all, no air!
I don’t seem to mind it though, at least I will not rust,
The lack of food would be a little problem too, I trust?

I’ve got my Momma Moonworm. She suckles me at night,
And solar cells can feed me ‘til the sun is out of sight.
It is the cold I run from, and you would too, you know,
My padding made of CO2 won’t work when it is snow!

I have my brother robots, to help me with the work,
They simply do not know the concept you call "shirk."
And they’ll be there to lend a "hand," if I perchance to fall,
And they’ll relay the message when our "Mother" starts to call.

It is a good life, by and large, we’ve got the stuff we need.
We are your colony on the Moon. We are your working "seed."
We’ll set the catapult up right, and send the things we make,
Jump up and join us, won’t you please? You’re needed for Heaven’s Sake!

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . . . . August 14, 2005

98 posted on 07/06/2014 4:49:46 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Will all of you people who keep "fixing" things please stop? Making them work again is killing me.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel
...IIRC, don't you also like Kahlua and rum in your adult beverages?

Yes. Yes I do.

;o]

99 posted on 07/06/2014 5:08:01 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm allergic to exercise.My skin flushes, my heart races,I get sweaty and short of breath.Dangerous.)
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To: Tax-chick

Morning. The kittehs look ready for mischief...They are gathering in hordes. They mean business!


100 posted on 07/06/2014 5:14:07 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm allergic to exercise.My skin flushes, my heart races,I get sweaty and short of breath.Dangerous.)
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