I'll bet there will be a pile of DOC activity in that area soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
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I'll bet there will be a pile of DOC activity in that area soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
I'd like to think there were a few hiding out down there (Moose, not DOC), unlikely, but who knows.
No it isn't, the photo in the article is genuine, it was taken by Max Curtis in Fiordland 1952. It's quite famous.Quote:
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 KenQuote:
Originally Posted by John Duxbury
one photo shows trees in back ground certainly look more Alaskan than Fiordland
He has a photo from 1999, and moose DNA from 2001 and 2002.Quote:
Originally Posted by fawkes
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.
The Herald have disappeared the hoax photo from the article, and haven't left a footnote to say what they did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry the hunter
It was Ken that busted that other photo as a fake it should be pointed out.Quote:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Duxbury
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Duxbury
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/southl...iordland-moose
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 yetQuote:
Originally Posted by Oscar
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:
https://i.ibb.co/JFkQ8z77/moose.jpg
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...
Why would it have to be at least 80 years old?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry the hunter