Aptly named by whoever started this viral email...
Hmmm...what's that moose up to?
The images below the fold are morally reprehensible, even by moose standards.
Special thanks to Alan "B.A. Baracus" Bleiman for forwarding this along to us...
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I'm referring to moose, of course. From an interview with biologist Joel Berger in the New York Times:
Minnesota moose experts generally agree that global warming is forcing the southern edge of the distribution of the moose northward into Canada, threatening this important US population of this ginormous deer species.
Minnesota has two populations of moose, one in the northwestern part of the state, one in the northeastern part of the state. Both are in decline.
tags: albino moose
Aha! Now we all know that the reproductive barrier between Alces alces and Bison bison geomorpha must be post-coital.
Can't that moose just buy an inflatable doll like other wildlife? I'm just glad that Jerry Falwell never lived to see this.
Hot hot moose-on-bison action. Woo!
Ahem. Sorry. Got a bit excited there.
Does former senator Rick Santorum have anything to say about this?
Now THAT'S a Hard-ON! (Ouch)
Proof that we are corrupting innocent wildlife by placing indecent statues around the landscape! The horror!
Seriously, in the first photo the moose appears to be sniffing the bison's rear end. Do ungulates use olfactory cues to detect receptive mates? And if so, what on earth did this statue smell like to get the moose hot for action?
Snopes had a piece on this a while back. Yes, it is real.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/moosemount.asp