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Old 03-29-2012, 07:42 PM
 
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Old 03-29-2012, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Anchorage Suburbanites and part time Willowbillies
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I kissed a moose once....................




.............. and I liked it!







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Old 03-29-2012, 10:10 PM
 
Location: Anchorage
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It's a shame all moose aren't as friendly as the one in Hogfamily's neighborhood. I'd like to pet a moose...
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Old 03-30-2012, 06:34 AM
 
Location: Lyon, France, Whidbey Island WA
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Looks like love to me =)
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Old 03-30-2012, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Anchorage, Alaska (most of the time)
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I kissed a moose once....................


.............. and I liked it!

That's an awesome picture - if you feel like selling it as a postcard come tourist season I know someone who can help *hint, hint* (No Rance, don't remove my shameless commercial! It's either this or we're paying big bucks for real ads )

Anyway, what's up with the "angry Alaskan moose"? Back home the moose is seen as a "timid" and friendly animal and you never hear of any stompings or anything of that sort. I was never scared of moose until I moved to Alaska.
You'd think that the moose in Sweden is more used to people (being that it's more densly populated than Alaska) so that would make it more aggressive, but that's not the case.
Is it the opposite, the less human-moose intervention that is to blame? If anyone has a theory I'd love to hear it.
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Old 03-30-2012, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Naptowne, Alaska
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Maybe it's because some of us throw snowballs at them when they won't leave our bird feeders alone!
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Old 03-30-2012, 11:01 PM
 
Location: Anchorage
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That's an awesome picture - if you feel like selling it as a postcard come tourist season I know someone who can help *hint, hint* (No Rance, don't remove my shameless commercial! It's either this or we're paying big bucks for real ads )

Anyway, what's up with the "angry Alaskan moose"? Back home the moose is seen as a "timid" and friendly animal and you never hear of any stompings or anything of that sort. I was never scared of moose until I moved to Alaska.
You'd think that the moose in Sweden is more used to people (being that it's more densly populated than Alaska) so that would make it more aggressive, but that's not the case.
Is it the opposite, the less human-moose intervention that is to blame? If anyone has a theory I'd love to hear it.
I have heard the moose are cranky because of how deep the snow is here, but I don't know what the snow is like in Sweden.
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Old 03-30-2012, 11:05 PM
 
Location: Anchorage, Alaska (most of the time)
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I have heard the moose are cranky because of how deep the snow is here, but I don't know what the snow is like in Sweden.
Snow's as deep in Sweden. Might be (hint hint Rance) because feeding them is a big thing in Sweden. Maybe if we start doing that here more they might become friendlier (in many many years from now granted ...) ?
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Old 03-30-2012, 11:20 PM
 
Location: Anchorage, AK
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That's an awesome picture - if you feel like selling it as a postcard come tourist season I know someone who can help *hint, hint* (No Rance, don't remove my shameless commercial! It's either this or we're paying big bucks for real ads )

Anyway, what's up with the "angry Alaskan moose"? Back home the moose is seen as a "timid" and friendly animal and you never hear of any stompings or anything of that sort. I was never scared of moose until I moved to Alaska.
You'd think that the moose in Sweden is more used to people (being that it's more densly populated than Alaska) so that would make it more aggressive, but that's not the case.
Is it the opposite, the less human-moose intervention that is to blame? If anyone has a theory I'd love to hear it.
Okay, actually, I do have a theory or three, and some questions.

Do moose often wander into town in Sweden? If they do not, that could explain the difference: less opportunity for interaction. Oddly enough, if they do so frequently enough to have become completely accustomed to the presence of humans, that could also explain it. It's pretty hard for me to imagine hogfamily's buddy Amber stomping anyone.

Second idea, which may or may not be true: I've seen a lot of posts claiming that Alaskan moose are bigger, at least than those in the lower 48, and therefor more threatening.

Third idea: I do not know how hunting is regarded in Sweden, but could it be that Alaskan culture, with its love of hunting, promotes a different perception of all wildlife? Perhaps it is not the animals that are different, but the way we choose to view them. I do not think I expressed this last idea very well, but perhaps you will still understand my meaning.
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Old 03-31-2012, 12:09 AM
 
Location: Anchorage
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i think there are laws regarding feeding wildlife in Alaska but I don't know the details. Even in Anchorage some woman in Spenard got in trouble for feeding pigeons. I think her neighbors were annoyed by all the bird poop.

Jazzy, I can certainly see why moose wouldn't like us with all the hunting going on.
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