KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is continuing its look at moose calf mortality on the Kenai Peninsula.
Fish and Game is conducting a mortality study in game management unit 15C south of Tustumena Lake and west of Kenai Fjords National Park. The study found that 83 percent of the moose calves collared this year in the game unit died.
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Area wildlife biologist Jeff Selinger told the Peninsula Clarion (http://is.gd/ND40yl) that 54 moose calves were collared in game unit 15C. Of those, 45 died. He says brown bears killed 19 calves and black bears killed two. The study says an undetermined bear species killed five.
Calves also were killed by wolves or coyotes, disease and drowning.
Researchers caused seven deaths when they frightened the cows into abandoning their calves.
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Information from: (Kenai, Alaska) Peninsula Clarion, http://www.peninsulaclarion.com
