Zachary writes: My partner, Alex, claims to have seen a moose on a recent trail run. But we live in Washington State, which is devoid of moose. I say he saw an elk, which are more common. Still, Alex maintains: moose. He also refuses to carry a phone or wear his glasses while running. Who\u2019s right?<\/p>\n
What will Judge Hodgman rule?<\/p>\n
A: You\u2019re wrong. In fact there were about 5,000 moose in Washington State as of 2015. It\u2019s hardly impossible that Alex saw one, especially if you live around the Spokane Valley, where the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have received reports of \u201calmost daily\u201d encounters with \u201cnuisance\u201d moose.B: You\u2019re wrong about the moose but right about the elk. Five thousand animals is nothing compared to the horde of some 60,000 elk wandering the state. That\u2019s probably what Alex saw. Or else maybe a Big Foot in a moose costume (a pretty standard trick).C: You\u2019re wrong about the moose and right about the elk, but you\u2019re wrong to tell Alex what he did or did not see. The only thing you have to gain in this fight is pride of pedantry and probably some couple\u2019s therapy down the road. The woods are mysterious, and neither of you know what he really encountered there. That\u2019s why you\u2019re right: Moose or no moose, he should run with his glasses on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zachary writes: My partner, Alex, claims to have seen a moose on a recent trail run. But we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-612440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}