Remember the albino moose that wandered the forest of Østfold, Norway? You know, the one whom the Norwegian hunters debate whether to shoot?
Well, that debate is moot thanks to a Danish hunter, who had few regrets about shooting him:
Frost, who had arrived for hunting in Norway on Monday, told Danish website bt.dk that he’d heard about a protected moose a few years ago but nothing recently. “So when I get it in my corner, I have just a few seconds to think about what I should do,” he told bt.dk. “But I decided to shoot the moose and it’s a decision I stand by.”
He quickly realized he hadn’t shot “just any moose, and when we gathered around it, someone said there would probably be press coverage.” He repeated that he “stands by” his decision to kill the moose, “although I would gladly be without all the noise that’s come afterwards.” He said he was “a bit amazed” that the shooting sparked so much reaction.
UGH.
It's a freak of nature color-wise (i.e. it hit the genetic jackpot getting both recessive alleles), but it's still just a Moose.
If Norway (the government) wanted to protect it, it could - since it didn't - get over it already.
It's not like albinos are some miracle of nature that we should be in awe of their beauty.
Run, Ole. RRRRUN!
Poor world.
Pass a flyer out with every Moose hunting license saying that all albino Moose are protected (under the namby-pamby law of 2011) and the penalty for shooting it is 50,000 kroners and permanent banning from any future hunting license in Norway.
So dumb and he is carrying a rifle? Where does he think he is? Wassalia, Alaska?
In Trinity Bellwoods Park Toronto theirs an albino squirrel that has cult like status. Its even been in commercials and the news. People say have you seen the white squirrel. I say who cares, I grew up in a neighborhood in Kingston On that had three albino squirrels. I say to these people would feel less angry at the albino tree rat than the dark coloured one if he chewed a hole in your roof that cost you a few thousand dollars to fix.
I think albino animals should go on the list of stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
I'm not some kind of crazy animals rights activist or anything but I hope every fool who has nothing better to do with his time and money then to go to the forest and snipe some unsuspecting deer shoots himself in both foots. and gets defecated on by bunnies and foxes while he lays there for a day. It's not that you couldn't buy meat at the market...
While an "albino" anything is not a seperate species and may not be that rare, it is just the notion of killing something special (or going against the norm) that probably had this man pull the trigger.
And for what? Will the white moose taste better than the brown moose? Probably not, but it caused a different reaction in people when compared to normal moose and that in itself is worth protecting.
What a dumb person that hunter is. Even tho I hate superstition, I wish it were around sometimes, especially if it protected animals from unnecessary slaughter/torture.
Plus it's unfair for the animal as they don't have guns. Suppose we even up the odds a bit and have the hunter armed only with a knife.
A white moose or elk as we call it is so rare and there are so few of them that they should not be protected?
This is not a freak of nature and they should be left alone so that people can take pictures of them. And that is the only way that they should be shot. With a camera.
I have never seen a white moose and i have heard that there are two in the whole of Norway. Now there is only one left. How sad!