White bull moose
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Me too.
There have been a few albino and white moose (non-albinos with dark eyes) photographed here in NE BC over the past 30 years; both bulls and cows.
Always neat to see.
I have seen an almost completely white (creamy white except for 4 cinnamon coloured paws - that may have been stained from walking through the muskeg) black bear here in this part of the province about 20 years ago...got at least one photo of it on one of the few times I saw it (from the vehicle on the road, and a couple of other sightings while flying in the helicopter for work).
Need to find pic and scan to the computer. Had others tell me of other mostly white black bears seen a few times in the same region around the same timeframe.
Always neat to see.
I have seen an almost completely white (creamy white except for 4 cinnamon coloured paws - that may have been stained from walking through the muskeg) black bear here in this part of the province about 20 years ago...got at least one photo of it on one of the few times I saw it (from the vehicle on the road, and a couple of other sightings while flying in the helicopter for work).
Need to find pic and scan to the computer. Had others tell me of other mostly white black bears seen a few times in the same region around the same timeframe.
I would have put this one and it's spirit in my freezer, if I had a bull tag.
Tags are so hard to come by in 60 that I don't think I could pass it up. You never know, that could be my only chance, but I would also keep my mouth shut about it, and definitely not post it on social media. This forum probably included.
I think they are called "piebald's" and they go from spotty or almost all the way white.
I saw a deer in NS that was probably 95% white just had a patch around his eye, if he was a dog he would have been named patch lol
I saw a deer in NS that was probably 95% white just had a patch around his eye, if he was a dog he would have been named patch lol
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Any idea why white moose are protected in that area? Seems really weird to me.
Religion. Many first nations peoples consider them to be sacred animals. I believe they are called spirit moose or something along those lines. White moose aren't albino's either, but rather have a recessive gene that makes them white. Like others have said in this thread, if someone was to shoot one of them, they better keep their mouth, and photo's to themselves. You'll get plenty of flack for shooting one even if in a legal area.
If it was legal, no problem taking a white moose.A year or too ago was a big hubbub made national and international news, of a white moose shot and killed near timmins Ontario, in a zone that it is prohibited from harvesting a white moose. First Nation was screaming for blood along with all the tree huggers, that such a spiritual animal could be killed. Of course it turned out it was a first nation individual who shot it. Crickets from the local reserve after that. Only comment from the chief who had stated that it was obviously done by white hunters as no native would ever do that , was oh, he must have had his reasons.
I took a white one in NS few years back that was a piebald, they say they are rare 1 in 30,000 but there is pockets around NS that have them. I feel like once it's in the gene pool in an area there are many animals that become piebald.
A white one was taken in Cape Breton a few years back and the guy who took it had to give the head and hide to the natives for a ceremony. He was raked over the coals for it.
What Ribstaylor said in #15
You have no clue and are just saying what you figure is right. Do t give advice if you don’t know what you are talking about. You sound stupid!! Lmao!!
