Stories tagged moose
How do you cool a moose? At the Minnesota Zoo, they use waterbeds
The headlines seem to be especially crazy these days, but this one really jumped out at me. So does the Minnesota Zoo have the coolest moose in the country, or what?
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Friends do not let moose climb trees drunk: This moose got stuck in an apple tree in Sweden after eating a few too many fermented apples.Courtesy CNNThings in Sweden are always a little more liberal, don't they say. Read about the misadventures of this sloshed moose.
Just a crazed wolf man: Looking a little more crazed than usual, it should be said. He had a long night.Courtesy Miguel Ariel Contreras Drake-McLaughlinI’m trying a little bit of a new format out here for Buzz posts, so bear with me. If it’s successful, my soft fingers will be saved much harmful typing, and science news can be enjoyed like a blockbuster preview, or maybe a musical montage. And so…
“Scotland…”
“Multi-millionaire Paul Lister…the son of the founder of a UK furniture retailer…”
“‘I am not just some crazed wolf man.’”
“Hulda and Hercules…a $31,630 pair of moose…now roam alongside newly released wild boar.”
“‘It’s not about conservation…it’s about restoration.’”
“If bears and wolves were introduced, business…would increase tenfold.”
“‘I am not just some crazed wolf man.’”
“Farmers, ramblers and neighboring landowners remain skeptical…of wolves.”
“‘It’s almost like a scientific experiment.’”
“Control the deer population…expensive culling…trampling of saplings.”
“A historical character called the Wolf of Badenoch…a highland clan chieftain…a raider…a rampager.”
“‘I am not just some crazed wolf man.’”
“Proposed reintroduction of the beaver.”
“‘It would probably run away if you came upon it.’”
“Wolves…complicated and costly…killed livestock…wolf population can multiply and spread rapidly.”
Is it the changing climate, nasty bugs, a virus or some other mysterious cause? That's what researchers are asking right now in northern Minnesota as they investigate the dramatic decline in moose numbers. The Star-Tribune has excellent coverage of the situation and what's being done to figure out this problem.
A study in Norway shows that an adult moose emits about as much greenhouse gas in a year as a car. Cows are even worse.
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