by Matthew Cobb
This was tw**ted by my pal Professor Sophie Scott of University College London, who is in Finland at the moment. At first I thought it was just paranoia (all those birch trees) but apparently not…There’s a mammal in this pic. What and where is it? (Click on the pic to embiggen).
Looks like Bigfoot.
Well, if the ‘pic’ includes everything under Cobb’s post, then the Finnish mammal is obviously Professor Sophie Scott and she’s there right next to her tw**t — which is diversionary.
Nice try, but yeah, you’ll have to work pretty hard to fool me.
Lemminkainen says that it is the “demon elk” (moose in N.A.) See Runo 13, The Elk Chase in the Kalevala.
Spotted!
You have to watch out for them when you stroll in the woods there and here, so perhaps I have an unfair advantage. (They can be aggressive, and you want to catch that early.)
Moose bites can be nasty.
Oy! I’ll say so — just ask my sister!
b&
And of course during car drives…
Humans are mammals, no? Don’t think I’d linger there long, though, if that’s the case — you might be seen!
b&
The mammal on the other side of the tree on the left.
lynx
Looks like an elk (moose) behind that birch tree…. Bullwinkle? Where is squirrel?
First we kill moose and squirrel.
Yep, looks very moose-like.
I don’t see the referenced animal, but I do know that “mammal” in Finnish is “nisäkäs”.
In this picture, there are 47 people. None of them can be seen.
It’s more or less centre frame. I’d say in the case of this one that it is hard to find not because of the amazing camouflage, like some of the caprimulgids we have been treated to, so much as the fact that it occupies a rather small part of the frame.
Having said that it is amazing how deer (I don’t have any experience with moose/elk) can disappear in a woodland.
Suggestive poses for the moose suggested by Vic Rotter