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Bronzed bull moose attracts horny brethrenWhat do you get if there is a big, bronze bull moose occupying your Alaska yard in the fall? A collection of horny, live moose wanting to do battle -- and a mob of Alaskans wanting to take photographs of the madness. It was bound to happen along Goldenview Drive on the Anchorage Hillside after Larry Flynn, the owner of AMP Pharmacy, put the moose decoy in the circular driveway of his home. And happen it did on Friday. Not one but two bull moose showed up to challenge the bronze guy. The biggest of them, a mature bull with antlers close to 5-feet wide, banged the statue a couple of times. It made a sort of whang, whang sound. The smaller of the two moose, with antlers of about 36 inches, lurked nearby. Such bulls are unlikely to get a chance to breed until they grow up, and this one obviously wasn't happy about it. Several times he grunted and approached people in the crowd who had gathered to witness the spectacle. Hey, if you can't intimidate other moose, at least you can intimidate people. The moose conveniently showed up in the yard just as people were heading home from work. Dozens of gawkers -- including a UPS driver -- stopped along Goldenview to watch or take pictures. There were parents on the way home, with kids just out of after-school play activities. There were old people. There were young people. There were people with cell phone cameras and digital cameras and video cameras, sometimes almost tripping over each other to get a picture. And there were cars plugging the road. Flynn's bronze moose has been the talk of many who commute along Goldenview ever since it moved into the neighborhood. It's sure to be the subject of even more discussion now. Contact Craig Medred at craig(at)alaskadispatch.com A related approach is to find an inflatable plastic ... wolf. Blow it up; position where moose will come by and 'discover' it. This kind of thing has been done, and we have the footage ... at least with chimpanzees, who we see going in on a leopard in the tall grass, swinging a cave-man club in an overhead roundhouse arc ... body-hair standing out rigid in a halo around the adrenaline-stoked body. Or a dominant male lion, casually sauntering up to and quartering behind his inflated competitor ... only to suddenly whirl and sink his fangs into the unflinching plastic lion's spine. Too funny. so tell me. when one of the idiotic Anchorage-ites gets trampled because they got too close to these already aggressive (due to their natural cycles) animals, is the media and the city at large going to call for the animals to be put down for doing what comes naturally? Probably so. And they will be put down. And it will be considered a good thing. Because 90% of Anchoragites aren't Alaskan, they're posers, they're more tourist than anything else. This article does not show the lack of intelligence in the animal, just the humans. (and no I'm not a bunny hugger, I'm just not a moronic Anchoragite tourist) "Because 90% of Anchoragites aren't Alaskan, they're posers, they're more tourist than anything else." Arr, now thar be a worthy stalking-moose. How many true Alaskans live in "Los Anchorage"? What happens to all those Natives who take up residence there? Does a real Alaskan lack the ability to be a tourist? How do we spot those posers-as-Alaskans? What's the give-away? Now, taking up these questions has been known to become more of a spectacle, than the case of the bronze moose. ;) Well said. |
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