Animals smarter than humans...again
The Yukon wildlife officials have been up to some pretty amusing stuff lately. First, a herd of introduced elk (non-native to the Yukon) have been found to be severely infested with ticks. These ticks, if they spread to moose (native to the Yukon), cause serious hairloss - oh hey, you bald guys out there, maybe that's why...never mind. So plan a was to feed the elk corn (non-native to the Yukon) treated with anti-tick medicine. Now imagine, those elk didn't eat the corn since of course it's not part of what they forage for up here. Plan b was to herd the elk by helicopter into an enclosure and treat them with the medicine there. They did get 80% of the ehrd, but the rest are still out there with their ticks.
Second thing, bison were re-introduced to the Yukon (used to be a native species at some point, but very long ago). The officials deemed a population of 500 bison the ideal number. Nasty bisons didn't listen to the bureaucrats and pro-created, so now there's about 1,200 of them. There's a lottert hunt on them but the bison keep outsmarting the hunters and just the odd one gets taken (hmmm, could it have something to do with the hunters approaching by snomobile through the silent winter forest?). The wolves, who are blamed by some peole for spposedly munching too many moose, are now also blamed for not eating enough bison. Sheesh. Can't win as a wolf. Either way, people are even dumber.
