Climate change is ruining moose’s lives and then killing them.

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The New York Times has an article out today about how moose are drying in droves, and oh man, it sounds really terrible to be a moose right now.
First of all, many of your friends are probably dead. One population in Minnesota, for instance, has shrunk over the past two decades from 4,000 moose to fewer than 100. It’s getting hotter in the winter, and if your body is designed, like a moose’s body, to flip out if the winter temperature tops 23 degrees, that’s a huge problem. Think of all the energy you expend staying warm in the winter; when the temperature creeps up, moose have to spend that amount of energy keeping cool. Also, if you’re a moose, you have to deal with wolves and human hunters.
And then there are the ticks. The ticks don’t have a problem with the warmer winters; they’re loving it. And they’re loving the ease with which they can attach themselves to moose and hunker down. A single moose, the NYT says, can have 100,000 ticks. It sounds terrible:........