Posted on 07/05/2026 5:56:08 PM PDT by xxqqzz
A Maine couple used their pickup truck to save a moose calf from a charging bear during a routine fishing trip Thursday, helping reunite the young animal with its mother.
Todd Malcolm told The Associated Press he believed the bear would catch the calf unless he intervened.
"I knew what I had to do, and I just did it," Malcolm said.
The encounter began when Todd and Elvia Malcolm spotted a female moose near the edge of the woods in Telos Township, Maine, and pulled over hoping to snap a photo.
"I said to Elvia, I said, ‘Grab your phone because you’re going to get a chance to get a picture of a moose,’" Todd Malcolm said.
After parking their truck, the couple noticed the moose appeared unusually agitated — and, as it turned out, for good reason.
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(”I said to Elvia, I said, ‘Grab your phone because you’re
going to get a chance to get a picture of a moose.”)
I had no idea that Joy Behar was even IN Telos Township, Maine.
I said,: “Don’t look Elvia!’
But it was too late. She’d ALREADY been Moose’d!
Aren’t you more likely to be injured by a moose than by a bear?
If the bear is brown, lie down. If the bear is black, hit it with a Mack.
“So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.”
lol
Predator DEI programs are killing off the game populations. Keep the bears, big cats and wolves in the National Parks.
I wish more alligators were made into shoes and purses.
I guess those people are from Massachusetts and thought the Moose can get his food from Market Basket...
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