The Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation, located west of Crossfield is telling people about a tale of two moose calves.

The calves were recently released back into the wild after months of care.

The first calf was admitted in June 2019 after she fell down a hill, away from her mother and sibling, and was caught in some debris. She was freed and left in the area in attempts to reunite with her family, but sadly the mother didn’t return.

The second calf was brought in a few weeks later from Grande Prairie after her mother had been struck by a vehicle and killed. It took 1,211 kilometers of driving to get the moose calf to the wildlife hospital Northwest of Airdrie.

It also took a lot of donations to help keep the animals fed. People from all around the wildlife centre donated fresh branches for the calves to eat.

AIWC took extra care to ensure the calves had as little human interaction as possible to facilitate their integration back into the wild.

In total it took 303 days to get the first calf to the point of being released back into the wild and 234 days for the second calf.

Check out the video below to see their progress from when they came in, to their reintroduction to the wild!

 

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