Vermont's moose population struggles despite hunting cutback
Scientists say they fear shifting climate conditions are to blame for Vermont's struggling moose population.
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Taking the temperature of big game
Big game are usually resilient and adaptive mammals, but increased warming in productive regions of Alaska and the Great Plains poses a threat to populations of moose and bison.
Ecology
Sep 7, 2020
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Of moose and men: 50-year study into moose arthritis reveals link with early malnutrition
It's seen as a sign of getting old, but scientists have discovered that arthritis is not just a human problem as a study lasting 50 years reveals how moose suffer from an identical form of the condition. The research, published ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2010
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Naturally occurring fungi could curb moose tick plague, entomologists find
Cheryl Sullivan was in the woods one warm October day, flicking yet another tick from her leg, "which felt like the tenth of the day," she says.
Ecology
Oct 10, 2019
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Warm weather forces park officials to suspend Isle Royale wolf count for first time in decades
A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers' annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades.
Ecology
Feb 1, 2024
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State ponders lowest moose hunt numbers in modern era
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is recommending the lowest number of moose hunting permits this year in the modern era as the herd continues to decline from infestations of ticks and brain worms believed to be ...
Ecology
Mar 12, 2018
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Ecologists Link Early Malnutrition, Later Arthritis in Moose
(PhysOrg.com) -- As a 150-pound person ages, the aches and pains of osteoarthritis -- a degenerative and progressively crippling joint disease -- often become an unpleasant fact of life. Think how the same condition hurts ...
Ecology
Jun 2, 2010
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Blood-sucking deer keds are spreading in Norway
A high moose population density and mild autumn weather result in a higher prevalence of deer keds (louse fly parasite). A great deal of pine forest in the habitat of the moose has the same effect. These are the results of ...
Ecology
Jun 11, 2013
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1 moose, 2 moose: Scientist seeks correction in number of species
It is a misinterpretation of the application of the bedrock of scientific naming with regard to the number of moose species that Kris Hundertmark, a University of Alaska Fairbanks wildlife geneticist at the Institute of Arctic ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2009
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What's killing Minnesota moose? Researchers launch new effort to find out
Moose have been falling over and dying across Northeastern Minnesota at a disturbing rate in recent years, and researchers still don't know why.
Ecology
Jan 10, 2013
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