A Moose Is Loose
mikethemadbiologist | February 12, 2008I'm referring to moose, of course. From an interview with biologist Joel Berger in the New York Times:
Q. O.K., why did the moose go down to the road?
A. If she's a native of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem and she's pregnant, she may have done it because she wanted to give birth in a place where one of her main predators, the grizzly bear, rarely goes.
Grizzlies tend to avoid humans. In the part of Yellowstone that I've been studying this past decade, the Grand Teton National Park, grizzlies don't go near the roads because they know that's where the humans and cars are.
I collar and track…