Wow! Rare white moose spotted taking a dip in lake

[jpak]

http://www.wcvb.com/article/wow-rare-white-moose-spotted-taking-a-dip-in-lake/12007681

A rare, white moose was spotted taking a dip in in Sweden’s Varmland County.

[klook]

1. Incredible

And may I add that Varmland is one of my favorite IKEA furniture lines.

[Demoiselle]

20. Well said, Klook.

[3catwoman3]

2. How utterly...

...spectacular!

[iluvtennis]

16. Agreed

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. I'm glad it's in Sweden

In Alaska it would be shot.

[pansypoo53219]

9. more nature too.

[grantcart]

13. There is more Moose hunted in Sweden than Alaska

The northern part of Sweden is very rural with huge moose populations. A large part of the northern Swede meat diet comes from moose. Huge populations of moose not only damage the forests and farms but also cause a lot of road accidents and they are extremely dangerous because the height of the moose is almost perfect to cause the body to land on the wind shield if hit side ways.

I learned that this was a problem in Norway and Sweden in the fall because I would go to Sweden to conduct business in the fall and a lot of key personnel were out hunting:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/27/numbers-game-hunting-moose-swedish-farmers-foresters

Hunting season will open in the south of Sweden on 12 October, when more than a quarter of a million Swedes will fell about 90,000 moose in a matter of weeks.

But for farmers, whose livelihoods are threatened by moose, this is not enough.

“We need to shoot more moose,” says Bernard Andersson bitterly. For 10 years he has farmed on Orust, an island on Sweden’s picturesque west coast. The moose pillage the fodder he grows for his cattle, trample his crops when they settle down to sleep for the night and break down his fences, allowing his cows to wander.


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Farmers complain that as much as half of their crops are eaten or destroyed by the animals, forcing them to buy expensive feedstuffs. Apple trees on the island look like “mutilated bonsai”, they say, thanks to browsing moose.

In the forests, the picture gets worse. It’s not the moss the moose are devouring, but the young pine trees, creating a wasteland of dead and dying saplings. They are literally eating into one of the country’s main exports.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646516/pdf/amjph00267-0110.pdf



I am not a hunter but understand what can happen with overpopulation when we take away natural predators.

[Fla Dem]

4. Majestic.

[Sinistrous]

5. Good Heavens!

Even its antlers are white!

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Awesome. But I thought it would be 45 swimming.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. That would be an orange moose. But notice how tRump has 2 uniforms: golf or suit-jacket-tie.

I doubt tRump has ever been observed swimming since he had adult proportions.

[Demoiselle]

21. I thought he didn't have adult proportions!

[CrispyQ]

7. Awesome!

We saw a moose & her baby this weekend up at Mud Lake. My first moose sighting & I see a baby!

[Wawannabe]

19. CQ

My first sighting was a baby! Alone tho.
I got the hell outta there because I could not find mama. I hear a moose mom is meaner than a griz bear mama!

[Yavin4]

8. Must be difficult keeping it clean, right?

Must spend a fortune on Clorox sticks.

[Doreen]

11. WOW! How beautiful.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. Vanilla Mousse!

[BHDem53]

14. Casper, the friendly moose.

[jg10003]

15. is this an albino or a specific breed that is normally white?

[Wounded Bear]

22. It has to be an albino...

not a lot of survival camo in being white all year in the forest. The amazing thing is that it lived that long.

[Codeine]

23. A rare genetic mutation, but not albinism.

And it's evidently becoming slightly more common over time.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/rare-white-moose-sweden-video-spd/

[skip fox]

17. I'm amazed no one is trying to caputre it for breeding purposes.

But then, it might not work like that.

[Equinox Moon]

18. I am transfixed!