Posted on 05/25/2007 9:44:27 AM PDT by TonyInOhio
Rare moose spotted
Kurt Are Boine Nikkinen was on a fishing trip, but made his biggest catch with his camera.
Nikkinen, 31, was on his way home from a fishing trip when he spotted a white moose in Tanadalen, 30 kilometers east of Karasjok in Finnmark County in northern Norway.
Around Wednesday midnight, the albino moose was out in a field, just about 100 meters from the road.
"It stood and looked at me," Nikkinen told Aftenposten.no.
The Finnmark man had a video camera in his car and filmed the moose, also driving after it when the moose ran along the road, and at one point was only about 20 meters from the animal.
"It was completely white and had red eyes," Nikkinen said.
After a while the animal turned and crossed the road behind Nikkinen's car before disappearing into a field on the other side.
"It was a great experience to see and film it. It is not the kind of thing you experience more than once in a lifetime," Nikkinen said.
The Finnmark man had heard rumors of the white moose before and there have been sightings of the animal in the area. Nikkinen believes the moose is a youngster, about a year and a half old. A hunter himself, he said he could never shoot the white moose.
"It would make a special trophy but it won't be on my wall. Such a fine animal should be protected," he said.
According to Nikkinen there were sightings of a white moose in the area around three years ago, and that this is likely a relative. A white moose appeared in Østfold County in southern Norway last October and sparked a heated debate about whether it should be hunted or preserved.
Grilled moose backstrap I had in Wyoming a few years ago has to rank right up there with the finest meat I’ve ever eaten.
Outstanding.
Yup—that’s the one—that bit my sister.......
There is a town in Missouri where albino squirrels are the norm. They were protected and now the population is homozygous for albino.
A mutation making better camo in snow isn't a "defect."
The "feel better" whiners are actually helping the Møøses evolve in preparation for the coming ice age.
Real live LOL!
"Pretty, pretty pretty!"
It’s an omen. Mother Gaia is preparing her moose (meeses?) for the coming new Ice Age... /grin
No doubt Bush’s fault and throw in global warming as well.
llamas on the other hand...
Albino moose bump
Moose lips sinks ships.
hope you get sacked...
"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal"
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