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To: MeganC

Moose also do not seem to have any fear of humans or cars or Semi trucks. They will walk right out in front of your vehicle in the middle of the day.
They are really dangerous at dawn or late in the afternoon when they are most active.

Bears really do not want to have any contact with humans. The only reason they come into your back yard is because YOU left food out. Birdseed, trash cans, etc. Out in the woods/bush a bear will smell you and leave. They are also mostly active at night.

Bears are smarter than moose.


24 posted on 06/03/2024 9:38:51 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

My father ran a mining railroad in northern MN for three decades. Memory says that he issued instructions to locomotive engineers to NOT use the air horns when encountering adult moose on the tracks.

Too many instances of the large males taking it as a challenge. They sometimes charged the locomotives. Many shambled off the right-of-way into the swamps after derailing an F9 or GP-series diesel-electric! Others were not so lucky and were disposed of by the DNR.

If the head-end crew couldn’t rerail the locomotive using frogs, a wrecker had to be dispatched from one or the other end of the 70-mile line.


65 posted on 06/03/2024 8:29:04 PM PDT by NelsTandberg ( )
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