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radar truck and moose drawing by Martha Minchak, Rhode Island

James Innes (Helicopter Wildlife Management, Salt Lake City, Utah), with net gun capturing a moose in Edson, Alberta, Canada

Moose are captured with a helicopter and net gun.

A video of a capture is available on the media index page.

 

 

 

 

Moose radio transmittersThen each moose is fitted with a radio transmitter; neck collars are battery operated and ear tags have a solar panel. Transmitters should function for 4 years. An antennae and radio receiver are used to pick up signals sent from the radio transmitters. Transmitters have a mortality switch that sends a different signal if the animal doesn't move for 8 hours.

 

Radio transmitters send signals.

 

Equipment like this is used from vehicles, airplanes, airboats, snowmobiles, or on foot to locate the live or dead moose.

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moose cartoon by Patricia M. DunningBlood is taken from each moose when it is captured. The blood is sent to a lab to determine pregnancy rates, disease and parasites, and nutritional and contaminant analysis.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Last updated on: January 4, 1999
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