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27-JUL-2010

Daisy

Anchorage

This evening I came across this calf and her twin brother next to the Campbell Creek bike trail. Their mother was hit and killed by a car in late June and they've been on their own since. They are in good shape physically, at least to my untutored eye, but without a mother there's no way they can survive the winter. They are one of two pair of orphan calves on the trail between Taku Lake and Arctic Blvd. I decided to call this one Daisy after seeing her nose the daisies at her muzzle.

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James Mason 23-Jul-2015 06:34
Both of these calves survived the winter and grew to adulthood. That really surprised me. This one bawled constantly after her mother died. A year later she was still making the strange crying noise.