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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Ian stuart Forsyth on October 05, 2015, 01:52:04 am

Title: A tuff End
Post by: Ian stuart Forsyth on October 05, 2015, 01:52:04 am

Last Fall and winter was hard on the moose population this year around here, we had 4 close by hit by vehicles and then this spring I found this poor bull. This fall near where this photo was taken I found the remains of another bull maybe this one
(https://isfphotography.smugmug.com/2014-Full-CR/i-T9wZxFP/0/X3/015_0756%20cr-X3.jpg) (https://isfphotography.smugmug.com/2014-Full-CR/i-T9wZxFP/0/4500x4500/015_0756%20cr-4500x4500.jpg)

(https://isfphotography.smugmug.com/2014-Full-CR/i-gkv6Tbb/0/X3/015_0757%20cr-X3.jpg) (https://isfphotography.smugmug.com/2014-Full-CR/i-gkv6Tbb/0/4500x4500/015_0757%20cr-4500x4500.jpg)

Title: Re: A tuff End
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on October 05, 2015, 03:45:01 am

Sad story, good photos.

Title: Re: A tuff End
Post by: Ian stuart Forsyth on October 06, 2015, 11:33:14 pm

thank you

Title: Re: A tuff End
Post by: Colorado David on October 06, 2015, 11:56:36 pm

That poor moose looks like he's been infested by winter ticks.  They can literally bleed an adult moose to death. It is common in the Alberta moose population.  I have a book here by Dr. Bill Samuel, White as a Ghost: Winter Ticks and Moose.  Bill was the chairman of the wildlife biology department at the University of Alberta, now retired I believe.  His brother, Dr. Dave Samuel, was the chairman of the wildlife biology department at either Virginia or West Virginia.  I can't remember which.  Winter ticks will work together in loose cooperation.  For example they will form a chain by one tick holding another, and another, and another until they are a couple of inches long.  When a suitable moose walks under them, the last tick grabs on and they all infest the poor creature.

Title: Re: A tuff End
Post by: Ian stuart Forsyth on October 09, 2015, 01:26:28 am

We do see it a lot around here