本月初,兩名登山客在阿拉斯加山上發現了兩頭被冰封在結冰河裏的公麋鹿,頭上鹿角互相交纏,身體仍維持死前打鬥模樣。
![Two hikers in Alaska came across two bull moose earlier this month frozen in ice while locked in mortal combat.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/5832693e15b61.jpg)
在美國阿拉斯加尤納拉克利特(Unalakleet)教書的自然老師布萊德(Brad Webster),帶著朋友到聖約聖經營地(Covenant Bible Camp)附近散步時,見到了這罕見的一幕。
![As in, they literally somehow drowned while fighting each other to what ended up being the death. And then the water froze.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/5832693e74286.jpg)
他表示,公麋鹿正值秋季交配季節會為了母麋鹿或搶地盤打架,這兩隻麋鹿可能是在打鬥過程中鹿角纏在一起,不小心失足,雙雙掉入沼澤中,於是身體被冰封困在20公分冰底下。
加拿大阿爾伯塔大學的麋鹿專家比爾(Bill Samuel)接受《國家地理》雜誌專訪時表示,過去從未見過此畫面。不過由於公麋鹿的頭角呈不規則狀,因此常有打架而卡住鹿角的情況發生。
![Bill Samuel, a moose expert at the University of Alberta in Canada, told National Geographic that while he has never seen anything like it, the enormous strength of moose bulls, combined with the irregular shapes of their antlers, can result in vice-like entanglements.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/5832693eb88dd.jpg)
布萊德表示,數天後他與友人返回原地,並把鹿頭給取了下來。
![Webster, who went to retrieve the moose heads with some of his friends, said one of the moose appeared to have pierced the other's skull. Pictured are the antlers buried in the snow](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/5832693eefcc1.jpg)
根據屍體狀態,他認為也可能當初打鬥過程中,其中一隻公麋鹿早已死亡,當屍體掉入沼澤時,也把另一隻麋鹿連同拖入水中。
![The dead moose could then have pulled his adversary into the water as he fell into the Slough, Webster believes. Pictured are the two moose heads being retrieved](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/5832693f92c3c.jpg)
來源:BuzzFeed|DailyMail
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