IronNoggin
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IMHO moose can be even more dangerous than bears. Personal experience that is.
Mother moose kills man attempting to photograph her babies
A female moose attacked and killed a man who was attempting to photograph her calves, according to Alaska officials.
The moose charged at two men who came too close to her offspring in Homer on Sunday morning, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement.
“As they were walking through the brush looking for the moose, that’s when the cow moose attacked,” Austin McDaniel, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Public Safety, told the Associated Press on Monday, adding that the moose, who had recently given birth, attacked the men as they were fleeing.
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, more people in Alaska are injured by moose than by bears each year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/21/moose-attack-homer-man-dead/
Mother moose kills man attempting to photograph her babies
A female moose attacked and killed a man who was attempting to photograph her calves, according to Alaska officials.
The moose charged at two men who came too close to her offspring in Homer on Sunday morning, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement.
“As they were walking through the brush looking for the moose, that’s when the cow moose attacked,” Austin McDaniel, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Public Safety, told the Associated Press on Monday, adding that the moose, who had recently given birth, attacked the men as they were fleeing.
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, more people in Alaska are injured by moose than by bears each year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/21/moose-attack-homer-man-dead/
be grumpy internet guy and state that the English language is rich in specific terms for the young of every animal on Earth and that the use of the human term "babies" really annoys me when it's applied to critters. What it is a gooey sentimental attempt by animal rights people to humanize animals, especially food animals, so that they won't be harmed under any circumstances. AND it is also this sort of attitude that leads to the deaths of people who think that a mother moose, one of the most dangerous animals in the wilderness, won't mind a human sneaking up on her calves, so there's another bad effect.
