Milking a Moose
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Two young elks form «Лосиный остров» (picture from there)
I am fascinated by the Kostroma Moose Farm web-page.
How can I not be, as the site yields such fascinating pictures and texts as quoted below?
"Swedish army had moose troops, but only until real battles. Moose turned out to be wiser then their knights, they left battlefield to hide in the nearest forest if danger occured. After several hundreds of years this experience was unlearnt. When the USSR decided to become worldwide, in the 1930s, war-moose were expected to solve the problem of deep snow cross-country cavalry passability. Moose were trained to carry armed riders and not to be gun-shy."
Photo by E. P. Knorre from his paper
"Behavioural changes in elk in the process of its domestication"
in the book "Behaviour of animals and problem of their domestication",
Transactions of the Moscow Society of Naturalists,
vol XXXV, Biological series, Moscow, 1969 (in Russian, with English abstract)