Thread: Moose

Originally Posted by Shearer

Moose are big animals. They shit and they leave prints. If they know exactly where it was, perhaps they could look for some more evidence?

I'll bet there will be a pile of DOC activity in that area soon.

I'd like to think there were a few hiding out down there (Moose, not DOC), unlikely, but who knows.

Originally Posted by Oscar

The article uses a photo that was part of a hoax that was also accepted at the time. Grounds to be sceptical.

Moose pictures a load of bull

No it isn't, the photo in the article is genuine, it was taken by Max Curtis in Fiordland 1952. It's quite famous.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

No it isn't, the photo in the article is genuine, it was taken by Max Curtis in Fiordland 1952. It's quite famous.

There was more than one photo in the original article - but usual honest MSM, they've deleted it without notice. They had the photo in the the link in my post about the hoax, it even fooled Ken

one photo shows trees in back ground certainly look more Alaskan than Fiordland

Originally Posted by fawkes

Ken Tustin would know more about Fiordland moose than anyone and he doesnt have conclusive evidence that moose still survive there.

He has a photo from 1999, and moose DNA from 2001 and 2002.
Then you have Ben Youngs sighting from 2020, and now this one in 2025.

Moose have very large territories and there were sightings of them as far north as Big Bay and East as the Eglington, all during the "accepted" period that moose were around in Fiordland. So whoever they asked for a quote at the DOC office doesnt know much about the subject.


Frankly, someone will have to shoot one for it to be believable, a photo wont do it, in this age of fake news and manipulation people dont even believe photos any more. They may not even believe a dead one.


It is interesting that an experienced North AMerican saw this animal and described it confidently as a moose: Americans are quite familier with elk and if he was going to mistake a red deer for anything other than what it is, you would think it would be an elk.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

one photo shows trees in back ground certainly look more Alaskan than Fiordland

The Herald have disappeared the hoax photo from the article, and haven't left a footnote to say what they did.

Originally Posted by Oscar

There was more than one photo in the original article - but usual honest MSM, they've deleted it without notice. They had the photo in the the link in my post about the hoax, it even fooled Ken

It was Ken that busted that other photo as a fake it should be pointed out.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

He has a photo from 1999, and moose DNA from 2001 and 2002.

Last year Ken Tustin said he hasn't seen any sign of moose still existing in Fiordland since 2015, last time he saw possible browse. Wonder if he saw any in the past 12 months.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

It was Ken that busted that other photo as a fake it should be pointed out.

It was surprising he wasn't sceptical from the off, looking at the trees in the background. At least they didn't end up in his book.

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/southl...iordland-moose

Originally Posted by Oscar

Last year Ken Tustin said he hasn't seen any sign of moose still existing in Fiordland since 2015, last time he saw possible browse. Wonder if he saw any in the past 12 months.

He hasn't really been doing any of it since then I understand, he is getting on in years. The moose that was going through Herrick creek every winter that he was trying to photograph probably had died as there was no more browsing sign in there since then. He did tell me to look at Broughton Arm, but I havn't been yet
It was interesting to me that as soon as he removed his cameras (2018) DOC aerial 1080'd the whole area for the first time more or less immediately, and have done it again since. Coincidence? Fox Molder didn't believe in coincidences...

Heres a Fiordland cow moose:

They've done 1080 drops in the Keplers too. I guess now we know the real reason why.

They 1080 the Eglington every year, it must be the most poisoned piece of real estate in the world. Compelling...

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

ohhh come on yeah there's a UFO base out here they come over each night - same thing - how old is this moose have to be at leat 80 yeah really did it have sticks photos nah bull shit factor yes - people claim all sorts for a read

Why would it have to be at least 80 years old?