Posted on 11/24/2020 11:07:49 AM PST by Red Badger
Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Officials in a Canadian town are posting signs with a very important instruction for local drivers: "Do not let moose lick your car."
The signs, posted in Jasper, Alberta, ask drivers to keep their vehicles a safe distance from moose to make sure the animals don't get a taste of the road salt that inevitably ends up covering the sides of cars driving through the alpine town.
"They're obsessed with salt, it's one of the things they need for the minerals in their body," Jasper National Park spokesman Steve Young told CNN. "They usually get it from salt lakes in the park, but now they realized they can also get road salt that splashes onto cars."
Young said letting moose discover that they can get salt from licking vehicles causes the animals to lose their fear of cars, which can lead to dangerous incidents on the road.
"Moose and cars are not a good mix. If you hit the moose with your car, you take the legs out from under it and it's going through your windshield," Young said.
He said people should keep their cars, and themselves, a safe distance away from moose. He said the population of moose has been rising in the area.
"We've been seeing a lot more moose lately. The wolf population is decreasing, which means there's fewer predators and the moose population is going up as a result," Young said. "This also means people need to be respectful and give them space."
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.. they should put out blocks on the trails. This would also keep them out of the town.
Space? Ah, freezer space...we eat tonight!
When I lived in New Hampshire Moose-car collisions were common and things rarely ended well for the car or the Moose. We had a fatal accident just a couple of miles from our house and we weren’t in what was considered to be a Moose habitat area.
They just need to give the mooses some margaritas.
Just how does one Stop a moose that really wants to lick your vehicle? 🤣
Hmmm...
I can think of a few situations where trying to keep the moose from licking one’s car could be a tall order.
I hit a deer on I-70 in Kansas in 1974 in my Pinto.....................
I hit a deer on I-70 in Kansas in 1974 in my Pinto.....................
If a moose is licking your car, how do you stop it.
I was wondering the same thing. A moose is big enough to do pretty much what it wants to do.
I hit a deer once at 50mph, on my motorcycle, nothing good came from it
Here’s a good money-making opportunity for an enterprising person: invent a moose deterrent. ‘Cuz I have no clue.
You’re lucky to be alive!......................
Did the rear gas tank explode?
Mynd you møøse licks Kan be pretty nasti
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