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DomovoiP t1_iu4kjmi wrote

Reply to comment by spiderfarmer in Is it possible that only 4 moose imported to Newfoundland in 1904 could produce a viable modern population of 110,000 today? by SlipCritical9595

Moose likes yummy seaweed, swims out some distance to eat some. Crazy current drags the moose out to sea, it gets disoriented. Moose then swims until it Finds a New Land.

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jumpmanzero t1_iu4mqno wrote

And two of them, with a length of seaweed between them, could absolutely bring along a coconut.

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Isotope_Soap t1_iu4t36c wrote

Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

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herbdoc2012 t1_iu4uzeq wrote

On the backs of small parrots flying between the fjiords is how coconuts migrate as we all know that!

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DragonBank t1_iu5a683 wrote

The hard part is a female and male both doing this in a period they can viably reproduce and meeting eachother on the islands. I'd assume 100s of moose would need to attempt this before a population occurs.

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PacoTaco321 t1_iu5zfwk wrote

It is a low probability of happening, but species spreading to a completely different part of the world from floating thousands of miles across an ocean and having a viable population in that new area also happened a lot more often than you'd probably think, so two moose swimming on their own 18 km is not too much of a stretch.

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mdielmann t1_iu63iv0 wrote

If a small population was already there, say, introduced by people, every moose that migrated there would be a breeding candidate.

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