move over, David Attenborough
August 15, 2018 7:43 PM Subscribe
Blessed redeemer! It's the piebald moose. Friends Nancy Andrews and Roxanne Rowsell captured a piebald (ghostly white) moose on video. The footage of the rare moose is interesting, but it's the women's Newfoundland accents and their charmingly goofy commentary that have sent it viral.
She sounds like Mary Walsh (which is really not surprising).
posted by GuyZero at 9:21 PM on August 15, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 9:21 PM on August 15, 2018 [2 favorites]
Yes GuyZero, I was thinking Cathy Jones!
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 10:24 PM on August 15, 2018
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 10:24 PM on August 15, 2018
That is a gigantic ungulate! I would also film and be very excited about such a moose- though my commentary would be less charming and more profane. How common are moose sightings in this area (or any area) or Canada anyways?
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 10:42 PM on August 15, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 10:42 PM on August 15, 2018 [2 favorites]
Moose sightings are very common in almost any somewhat swampy part of Canada, other than Vancouver Island.
Piebald moose? Not so much.
posted by Rumple at 11:02 PM on August 15, 2018 [2 favorites]
Piebald moose? Not so much.
posted by Rumple at 11:02 PM on August 15, 2018 [2 favorites]
Why does piebald mean ghostly white in this instance, when for all other animals, piebald means pigmented areas on a white (unpigmented) background?
Asks a sheila who thinks renaming piebald and skewbald horses as pintos in Australia is, well, unAustralian.
posted by Thella at 12:47 AM on August 16, 2018 [6 favorites]
Asks a sheila who thinks renaming piebald and skewbald horses as pintos in Australia is, well, unAustralian.
posted by Thella at 12:47 AM on August 16, 2018 [6 favorites]
Thella, if this is the same moose as this one, he has got a few speckles.
posted by Gordafarin at 2:02 AM on August 16, 2018
posted by Gordafarin at 2:02 AM on August 16, 2018
I'm surprised that This Hour Has 22 Minutes hasn't given them roles as field correspondents yet.
Moose Watch!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:50 AM on August 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Moose Watch!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:50 AM on August 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Does anybody have a better video link? Because on my phone it looks like this, which is kinda hilarious in its awfulness (especially since there's no fullscreen option, what the heck CBC!) but not actually very useful.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 5:47 AM on August 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 5:47 AM on August 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
There's a local comedy open mic night at a bar here and I've gone to it a couple of times. Once a lady from Newfoundland got up, she was in her 40s and clearly a fish out of water compared with the mostly 20 something dudes who were going up to the mic. But her timing and the way she talked got laughs far beyond any of the other performers for just telling a few stories about her pretty mundane life. Newfoundlanders are just natural comics and it made my comedian friend inwardly furious in a grudgingly admiring way.
posted by Space Coyote at 5:49 AM on August 16, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by Space Coyote at 5:49 AM on August 16, 2018 [11 favorites]
My new anti-road rage measure will be to swap out "The fuck are you doing over here!" with "Oh... my... blessed redeemer, Nancy, it's a non-signaled lane change".
I will report back if this is successful.
posted by Emmy Rae at 6:42 AM on August 16, 2018 [32 favorites]
I will report back if this is successful.
posted by Emmy Rae at 6:42 AM on August 16, 2018 [32 favorites]
I miss seeing moose and elk. I'd love watching them trundle through lakes and marshes while nonchalantly snorfing their munchies. They have a rare combination of massiveness, grace, and relative fearlessness of humans. They're positively delicate when in water; the closest sensation that watching one in person brings to mind, is seeing orcas in the wild.
Bison are similar in their majestic-and-quirky impressiveness, but you only get the chance to see them wild in and around Yellowstone. Whereas I grew up with teh meese; seeing one's gigantic grace in water and forest feels like home.
posted by fraula at 6:43 AM on August 16, 2018 [5 favorites]
Bison are similar in their majestic-and-quirky impressiveness, but you only get the chance to see them wild in and around Yellowstone. Whereas I grew up with teh meese; seeing one's gigantic grace in water and forest feels like home.
posted by fraula at 6:43 AM on August 16, 2018 [5 favorites]
As a Newfoundlander who has lived in Ohio for 24 years, I'm still pleased that I can turn the accent on at a moment's notice. It's deeply satisfying!
posted by newfers at 7:05 AM on August 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by newfers at 7:05 AM on August 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
It might be a bit gauche to start off with hunting here, because I'm pretty sure anyone who hunted this moose in particular would be run out of town, but my father and his brothers all try to get moose hunting licenses every year. (My grandpa used to too, but he's getting on in years.) It's done through a weighted lottery process. It's quite rare to get a license, and obviously the license alone does not guarantee a moose.
My papère was a butcher before he retired, and on his land he has a walk-in freezer and small butchering set-up, so if one of them got lucky enough to get a moose for the family he'd butcher it himself and divide the results among my dad and my uncles. At the time we didn't have a ton of money so the extra meat was always very welcome. We would eat a long time on moose steak, ground moose (mixed, I think, with beef suet?), moose-mince gravy on home-grown potatoes.
I've never liked hunting specifically, so as much as I liked getting to eat so well, I preferred the years we didn't get a moose license. Those years, my dad and his brothers and my grandpa would take me out to the woods just to just to track them. I would look for to hoof prints, the stripped trees, and if we were lucky I'd get to admire one through binoculars. It was always a joy to find one, some of my favourite times as a teenager... I miss it a bit now, living more urban.
They're really something else. Huge, graceful, and powerful. This piebald moose is practically otherworldly! If I saw it in person I'm sure I'd have a moment of doubt that I'd seen a forest spirit of some kind. What a lucky sighting!
(My very last day of middle school, just graduating the 8th grade and ready to go on to summer vacation, a moose wandered into the bus parking area and we weren't allowed to leave when the bell rang! Torture! Animal control eventually shooed it back to the woods. )
posted by one of these days at 7:27 AM on August 16, 2018 [13 favorites]
My papère was a butcher before he retired, and on his land he has a walk-in freezer and small butchering set-up, so if one of them got lucky enough to get a moose for the family he'd butcher it himself and divide the results among my dad and my uncles. At the time we didn't have a ton of money so the extra meat was always very welcome. We would eat a long time on moose steak, ground moose (mixed, I think, with beef suet?), moose-mince gravy on home-grown potatoes.
I've never liked hunting specifically, so as much as I liked getting to eat so well, I preferred the years we didn't get a moose license. Those years, my dad and his brothers and my grandpa would take me out to the woods just to just to track them. I would look for to hoof prints, the stripped trees, and if we were lucky I'd get to admire one through binoculars. It was always a joy to find one, some of my favourite times as a teenager... I miss it a bit now, living more urban.
They're really something else. Huge, graceful, and powerful. This piebald moose is practically otherworldly! If I saw it in person I'm sure I'd have a moment of doubt that I'd seen a forest spirit of some kind. What a lucky sighting!
(My very last day of middle school, just graduating the 8th grade and ready to go on to summer vacation, a moose wandered into the bus parking area and we weren't allowed to leave when the bell rang! Torture! Animal control eventually shooed it back to the woods. )
posted by one of these days at 7:27 AM on August 16, 2018 [13 favorites]
Moose slips on icey driveway (with Cape Breton accented commentary (YouTube video, 46 sec)).
posted by phoque at 8:10 AM on August 16, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by phoque at 8:10 AM on August 16, 2018 [6 favorites]
And I saw, and behold a pale moose: and he that sat on him had a box of Tim Horton's; and a IceCaps helmet was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
--Canadian Revelations (attributed to Saint Jackson the Blessed)
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:06 AM on August 16, 2018 [14 favorites]
--Canadian Revelations (attributed to Saint Jackson the Blessed)
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:06 AM on August 16, 2018 [14 favorites]
Phoque, that is my other favourite clip!
"It's a sin, Jamie! It's too oicy for him!"
"Yeah well If he falls against my cahr he's gonna fuckin' wroite 'er ahff!"
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:57 AM on August 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
"It's a sin, Jamie! It's too oicy for him!"
"Yeah well If he falls against my cahr he's gonna fuckin' wroite 'er ahff!"
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:57 AM on August 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
How common are moose sightings in this area (or any area) or Canada anyways?
I've lived in a small northern Canadian city for the last 20 years, and for me it's averaged out to about one moose every couple of years. I never saw a single one before I moved here though. Those suckers are ENORMOUS. And you do not want to piss off a rutting male or a mama moose because they will apply their body weight to your puny human frame (or your car) at speed.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:02 PM on August 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
I've lived in a small northern Canadian city for the last 20 years, and for me it's averaged out to about one moose every couple of years. I never saw a single one before I moved here though. Those suckers are ENORMOUS. And you do not want to piss off a rutting male or a mama moose because they will apply their body weight to your puny human frame (or your car) at speed.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:02 PM on August 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
The Norse settlement at L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland was abandoned around 1000 AD. There are different theories why.
posted by Naberius at 12:04 PM on August 16, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by Naberius at 12:04 PM on August 16, 2018 [8 favorites]
I once had a moose stick it's head into an open bus window to look for food...I guess...maybe just good company. The window was mostly too small for it to push through, so it just destroyed the frame and came in to about shoulder deep anyway. TERRIFYING LOUD AND HUGE. Then it just wandered off.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:29 PM on August 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:29 PM on August 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
I once had a moose stick it's head into an open bus window
A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli!
posted by Naberius at 3:19 PM on August 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli!
posted by Naberius at 3:19 PM on August 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
My family is aboriginal, and an old family friend of ours was an aboriginal tracker, for the urban hunters who would come up to Quebec, primarily from the States. He told us many a tale of encountering both rutting deer and moose (this would have been from back in the 70's.)
The first story was a relatively common one -- that the urban hunters were not always smart enough to forgo the aftershave and other scented products; and as a result, the deer and moose could literally smell them from miles away. It would often be discovered that they would track back around the hunters in a big circle and follow them from BEHIND, as that was much safer for them.
The deer and moose also seemed to be aware of the beginning of hunting season, almost to the day -- as they would be wandering all over the woods, then the next day (first day of the season) they would stick only to the insides of the borders of the provincial park where hunting was prohibited. They would sometimes actually stop to watch the hunters from *within* the park borders, seemingly knowing that they couldn't be touched while in the park.
The third tale was my favourite; our friend was doing his best moose calls, to call in the rutting moose into the area. Well, apparently he did such a good job that a pair of moose rushed in and caught them totally off-guard (usually it can take at least 20 minutes up to an hour before a bull will arrive after calling). And there is nothing quite so terrifying as having two full-grown bull moose, easily 7 foot tall at the shoulder and weighing between 1200 to 1600 lbs galloping straight at you!
Our tracker friend and the 2 hunters barely managed to climb up trees (without their rifles), where they were stuck for between 3-4 hours, as the pair of bull moose trampled the clearing, and knocked over several smaller trees during their hours-long rut, would take breaks and start up all over again. A third smaller bull arrived, but left after it lost a battle to the biggest one. It was only much, much later that the exhausted moose left and the trio were able to come down from the trees. Our friend said it was the longest rut/battle that he had ever seen/heard of.
posted by Jade Dragon at 5:06 PM on August 16, 2018 [7 favorites]
The first story was a relatively common one -- that the urban hunters were not always smart enough to forgo the aftershave and other scented products; and as a result, the deer and moose could literally smell them from miles away. It would often be discovered that they would track back around the hunters in a big circle and follow them from BEHIND, as that was much safer for them.
The deer and moose also seemed to be aware of the beginning of hunting season, almost to the day -- as they would be wandering all over the woods, then the next day (first day of the season) they would stick only to the insides of the borders of the provincial park where hunting was prohibited. They would sometimes actually stop to watch the hunters from *within* the park borders, seemingly knowing that they couldn't be touched while in the park.
The third tale was my favourite; our friend was doing his best moose calls, to call in the rutting moose into the area. Well, apparently he did such a good job that a pair of moose rushed in and caught them totally off-guard (usually it can take at least 20 minutes up to an hour before a bull will arrive after calling). And there is nothing quite so terrifying as having two full-grown bull moose, easily 7 foot tall at the shoulder and weighing between 1200 to 1600 lbs galloping straight at you!
Our tracker friend and the 2 hunters barely managed to climb up trees (without their rifles), where they were stuck for between 3-4 hours, as the pair of bull moose trampled the clearing, and knocked over several smaller trees during their hours-long rut, would take breaks and start up all over again. A third smaller bull arrived, but left after it lost a battle to the biggest one. It was only much, much later that the exhausted moose left and the trio were able to come down from the trees. Our friend said it was the longest rut/battle that he had ever seen/heard of.
posted by Jade Dragon at 5:06 PM on August 16, 2018 [7 favorites]
All I have to add is that after watching this video this morning I said "Blessed Redeemer!" out loud to a client today when something good was revealed at work and they really dug it too.
posted by glonous keming at 5:20 PM on August 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by glonous keming at 5:20 PM on August 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
Anticipation of A New Lover's Arrival, The--it's true there's no full screen, but you can do the pinch and zoom if you're on a mobile device...at least I was able to.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:03 PM on August 16, 2018
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:03 PM on August 16, 2018
An absolutely true update: today on my drive home someone came into my lane and I said "my blessed redeemer" and I didn't have to finish, I was already laughing.
posted by Emmy Rae at 4:53 PM on August 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Emmy Rae at 4:53 PM on August 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
Just got back from two weeks in Newfoundland yesterday. Saw three moose. And more postcard perfect scenes than I could possibly process. Just amazing.
And the people! Hands down, the nicest people to strangers that I have encountered. Again and again and again I'd come away from a casual encounter warmed by how nice my interaction had been. You must be ready to be addressed as "My darlin'" multiple times a day. Quite lovely.
posted by kaymac at 8:19 AM on August 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
And the people! Hands down, the nicest people to strangers that I have encountered. Again and again and again I'd come away from a casual encounter warmed by how nice my interaction had been. You must be ready to be addressed as "My darlin'" multiple times a day. Quite lovely.
posted by kaymac at 8:19 AM on August 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
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