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Index of Subjects These have been around for a few years, attributed to various locations. Here is a link to Snopes on them http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/albinomoose.asp Don Don MacNeill donmacneill@eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Hiltz" <birddog@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] white moose in Wentworth? Pretty sure these are from Alaska. I saw them several years ago , sent by a friend in Alberta who stated they were from Alaska at the time ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Christie" <MarysPt@nbnet.nb.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Cc: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>; "Maria Forman" <philmaria@xplornet.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] white moose in Wentworth? > At 6:48 PM -0400 2/3/10, Maria Forman wrote: > >>OKSI just received an email from a family member with pics of two white >>moose, near WentworthSWhen I scanned thru the pics, there was a bird in >>one that I had never seen around here before, and I live at the foot of >>Folly Mountain, which is not far from WentworthStherefore, I'm wondering >>if these moose were really in the Wentworth area. They're pretty cool >>looking, I must say! I > > > Over the years, I've seen about 20 different photos of white moose being > circulated on the Internet. Those photos get sent around a lot and people > keep changing the place where they are supposed to have been taken. One > week, a given moose is from Bathurst, NB, then from Shelburne, NS, a month > later from Newfoundland. > > Thus, it's difficult to know where a photo actually originated -- but very > likely not Wentworth. I think that the bird Maria mentions is probably a > Black-billed Magpie, suggesting that one photo at least was taken in > western North America. I do recall hearing that there is some area of > northern Ontario, where albinism in Moose is rather frequent, but I'm not > sure how reliable that is either. > > > David > > -- > > David Christie > Mary's Point, Harvey, Albert Co., New Brunswick, Canada > http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt >
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