New York DEC officers, forest rangers help rescue moose from frozen water in Indian Lake

[KRooney]

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/new-york-moose-rescue-indian-lake/63458929

When I saw this news story, and googled moose population in NYS, and I found there are approx. 600-700 in the ADK's. It's been several years (2001) since I finished my 111's on Esther but then there were only a handful. Reminds me somewhat of the turkey population. When I was a kid growing up in VT there weren't any, and now there are thousands in VT and NH.

 

[Dr. Dasypodidae]

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/new-york-moose-rescue-indian-lake/63458929

When I saw this news story, and googled moose population in NYS, and I found there are approx. 600-700 in the ADK's. It's been several years (2001) since I finished my 111's on Esther but then there were only a handful. Reminds me somewhat of the turkey population. When I was a kid growing up in VT there weren't any, and now there are thousands in VT and NH.

I suppose some people will argue that humans should have let nature take its course with the moose, but not I, who found this story heart-warming. Thanks for sharing.

 

[skiguy]

I suppose some people will argue that humans should have let nature take its course with the moose, but not I, who found this story heart-warming. Thanks for sharing.

I agree.

 

[Dr. Dasypodidae]

Those snowmobilers are A-OK.

 

[helmethiker]

Those snowmobilers are A-OK.

Canadians.

 

[KRooney]

Canadians.

Or Canadiens.

 

[BillyGr]

Or Canadiens.

Canadians.

Maybe it just depends on WHICH part of Canadia someone comes from?

 

[helmethiker]

And I am not sure but maybe Minnesotans sound similar to the voices on the video?

I would have thought that Canadiens would have been speaking a different language.

 

[Mac]

Some would argue that Newfoundland English is another language

 

[helmethiker]

In another thread you can read some of the consequences of English being different languages even amongst similar age people hiking in New England.

English - something like 5 languages jammed together. Where most meanings have many possible words, and many words have many possible meanings, even without vernacular or age difference word choices. In 1969 my brother and I cycled from Edinburgh to Oxford. In Yorkshire they spoke English, but it the farm country it was a foreign language to me. At least half the words chosen were ones that were not in common use in New England, and the accent made it very hard to parse. My older brother seemed to be OK with it.

But as a human I look at the moose looking at the people, and my immediate thought is the moose is trying to say thank you. Similarly years ago another brother sent out a video of what my memory says was a fox and a badger at the entrance to a tunnel under a highway, and visually the fox is encouraging the badger to go through the tunnel. Or in a book written by a solo around-the-world sailor where a group of dolphins or porpoises were repeatedly swimming by the boat, and then making a 90 degree turn. They left after he made the turn, which avoided some extreme weather event.

Communications between living animals, and we are living animals, can be hard. But sometimes works.

 

[JoshandBaron]

In another thread you can read some of the consequences of English being different languages even amongst similar age people hiking in New England.

English - something like 5 languages jammed together. Where most meanings have many possible words, and many words have many possible meanings, even without vernacular or age difference word choices. In 1969 my brother and I cycled from Edinburgh to Oxford. In Yorkshire they spoke English, but it the farm country it was a foreign language to me. At least half the words chosen were ones that were not in common use in New England, and the accent made it very hard to parse. My older brother seemed to be OK with it.

But as a human I look at the moose looking at the people, and my immediate thought is the moose is trying to say thank you. Similarly years ago another brother sent out a video of what my memory says was a fox and a badger at the entrance to a tunnel under a highway, and visually the fox is encouraging the badger to go through the tunnel. Or in a book written by a solo around-the-world sailor where a group of dolphins or porpoises were repeatedly swimming by the boat, and then making a 90 degree turn. They left after he made the turn, which avoided some extreme weather event.

Communications between living animals, and we are living animals, can be hard. But sometimes works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelorus_Jack