Up to 150,000 ticks can beset a moose at one time, bleeding it out until the moose is little more than ribs, antlers, and some loose skin. In New Hampshire, scientists have proposed that longer falls and shorter winters has allowed the winter tick population to bloom, the Washington Post reported. Scientists suggest that climate change is a probable factor, but pinpointing just how climate change affects the moose has been difficult. Only Maine has seen an increase in its moose population, with some 75,000 animals living within its borders. In Minnesota, the population in its northeast has been halved since about 2010, and moose have disappeared almost entirely from its northwest. In Montana, numbers have fallen about 40 percent since 1995, and in Wyoming there are just 919 animals left – a quarter of the state’s target moose population.
In New Hampshire, the moose population has dropped from some 7,000 moose to around just 4,600 animals.
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And that means that scientists are at the moment unsure how to save America’s moose.
What is behind the strange moose die-off across the USA? It may be related to climate change.Īll across the US – from the West Coast to the East Coast, from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River – moose are dying, and scientists yet don’t know how to save them.īut though scientists have a long list of culprits – disease climate change over-hunting – it’s not clear just what is causing moose to die in droves.
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