Suo Gan
10-24-2009, 03:34 AM
Many moons ago when I was a lad I was stationed at a Loran C station up above Nome, Alaska. We had a seaman there that would shoot anything, and one day he shot two cow moose from the Boston Whaler. He had recovered them to the heavy duty shed about 3 miles from the station, and had begun the process of butchering them. He hung them there with the hide on that night and bragged to someone at supper that immediately reported him to the Alaska Troopers. They flew out, and issued him a big fine. But a thousand pounds of meat was not going to be wasted, so the trooper paid a visit to some Inuit friends from a neigboring village. I was there when the Eskimo skinned the two moose (meese, mooses :)). He had a long kitchen knife, and he made short work of them. As he was skinning one he noticed something apparently unusual, but not unheard of. He found that one of the cow moose had a twin of sorts inside her hide. It was covered with short hair and grew almost like a pocket in her regular hide. It did look like a shrunken moose with tiny ears, nose and feet. He said that they called it a moose inside a moose (eskimos are very practicle people). The kicker is that when I was relaying this story to a coworker the other day he said that it sounded like a tall tale (I am not above this from time to time so he might have reason)
Have any of ya'all ever heard of this before? Perhaps in another species? Velly intawesting Danielson.
Good night fellas, SG
Have any of ya'all ever heard of this before? Perhaps in another species? Velly intawesting Danielson.
Good night fellas, SG