Thread: Moose

Interestingly ive just got a book out of the library about the west coast area of Kokatahi Kowhiterangi -inland from Hokitika and it has a detailed section on the moose liberations and their subsequent antics .
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To summarise some preferred human company and it was a bugger of a job to return them to the intended area ,at least one needing about 3 repeated efforts .yes one old cow lived her life around a remote farm up there after she beat the human efforts .very interesting and amusing .me Im a believer and whats more given the extensive pakihi/ scrub areas on the coast Id like to see another release of fresh bloodlines .

Is that the Percy Lyes book Kotuku?
That's a great read with some very interesting details of the moose around Hokitika

Originally Posted by Deanohit

Is that the Percy Lyes book Kotuku?
That's a great read with some very interesting details of the moose around Hokitika

no its a book " Kokatahi& Kowhetarangi on the west coast the first 70yrs 1865-1935" by Aubrey Cropp who stems from one of the original pioneering families in the district

Kaiangaroa in the North Island would have been better habitat for moose -- I have always wondered where they let the axis deer go did not last long apparently

Apparently one of the cows in the coast liberation took a shine to an unsuspecting prospector .the first he knew was when the tent flap flew open and "hello big boy".Unable to get her out of the love nest ,he took refuge in a large nearby tree until some locals arrived and removed the lovelorn animal returning it to its proper location .
Not untypical apparently because a lot of that group particularly cows periodically showed up on local farms or as one bright individual did ,taking up residence on a main road .the bulls -a lot more solitary apparently one even being sighted at the base of the browning pass (coast side ).this lasted from 1900 -1912 although there are reports of at least one supposed sighting after this . interesting all the same. If your lady love has a large probiscus ,long eyelashes and sharp hooves Id be discretely checking her out and planning a rapid exit!
furthermore if she starts a continuopus low level mewing /grunting in the fartsack ,run like hell and lock yaself in ya man cave cause to stay would see things happen even a hardened waikato drinker would choke over!you have been warned!!!