I must respectfully add a massive caveat to this. In the spring, Moose are perhaps the most dangerous animals in the woods. Specifically the females. Because they are so quiet, and because the calves go to ground to hide making them incredibly hard to spot, it is very possible to become rated a threat to the calf by the mother without ever knowing either are around. At which point you may well wish you were dealing with bears.
Malaya What If
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We do have a lot of foxes. Bison have been re-introduced in Kent I think, and we have deer all over the sodding place, ranging from Red Deer to Muntjacs, which are small. There are also boar in the New Forest (which are probably spreading).
To my brother in law's utter horror when he heard about this we also have had beavers reintroduced. He thinks that they are a menace and he regularly has to destroy beaver dams at work in Oregon.
Whenever we were in Oregon or Canada my wife stressed to me how dangerous Moose are. Especially when they stand in front of your approaching car and refuse to move.
That too. They are perfectly proportioned to fall directly on your seat if you run into them.
Of course, I know a guy who hit a muley which got stuck with its legs facing into the windshield. He was kicked to death while the deer tried to get itself free. So, yeah, I suppose there are many ways to die in the west.
I'm curious as to what job involves regularly destroying beaver dams. (most places in Maryland, they try putting a pipe underneath to allow for flow)
Rancher. At least in my experience further North. In low rainfall areas beaver dams can represent a total monopoly on the limited water flow through a water basin. You need to remove them to get the water where you need it to water your livestock.
He works for the Park Service near Portland. Lots of land management issues. A friend of his once rang him in something of a tizzy to say that she'd hit a cat with her car and she didn't know what to do. Puzzled, he went to meet her. Turned out that by 'cat' she meant a lynx or a mountain lion. It was knocked out, woke up, saw them and ran away.
EDIT: Apologies, I was wrong. My brother in law works for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT).
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As I understand it that's only a partial solution. The beavers will eventually detect the flow and block the entrance to the pipe. Fortunately in Canada we have another way of dealing with pesky beaver dam produced flooding.
You truly do not want to be over driving your headlights at night on the highways in Northern Canada. As you mentioned the Moose have long legs exactly the right height to place their body above the hood of a car. So it you hit one you get about a thousand pounds of Moose coming through your windshield at whatever speed you were going. A famous fatal accident cause.
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Will there be a flying squirrel recon force attached to Bullwinkle Force?
Full agreement on the above, but just as a detail, note that some of the Malaysian locomotive stock was converted from wood or coal to oil burners as far back as the WWI period. Oil was relatively readily available and easy to manage in the warm Malaysian environment, compared to coal which had somewhat limited availability within Malaysia, presented transportation issues if sourced from Thailand, and needed to be kept dry for most consistent use.
But the Japanese would have even more trouble if they captured oil burning engines, since oil for them was in even shorter supply.
Federated Malay States Railways - Wikipedia
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I'll put my two-bit theory in here:
- The historical Malaya, Singapore, DEI, Burma etal Campaigns are very well known to many of our compatriots on this site - in gory detail
- As a by-product of point #1, our intrepid and prolific author is very careful to get their ducks absolutely in a row for history, and to prepare the ground for logical plausible divergence. That takes time, so there is sometimes intervals between the authors TL postings.
- When there are intervals, we impatient children will play. It's frequent for the observers/kibitzers to either descend into increasingly passionate pissing matches resolving little, or we go off on non-pertinent tangents, such as the discussion of air rifles and dangerous NA mammals. By comparison, pdf27's 1000 page AH volumes on an alternative 1940 war, got sidetrack into a discussion of bananas and banana shipping.
- When our author posts another update to the TL, we're all back on track (usually).
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a population of at least 400 or so wild boar on the Kent Sussex border. Allegedly as a result of escape from a farm near Tenterden following the great storm of 1987 (which I remember only too well)
also would add this as another potential threat
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I remember going to New Hampshire as a kid and seeing big yellow signs along the road with a replaceable/changeable number on it that said Moose have killed xxx drivers so far this year. Yea, they are big, and set up nicely to come into your windshield when you hit them.
Thread tax. If the Japanese get held up on their advance down the malay peninsula, the ligistic burden will not be lessened, as a certain poster here seems to believe. It will in fact require more supplies of all types to sustain a longer offensive. Also, a less rapid advance implies a stronger resistance, which will result in an increase in casualties. Plus, extending the time period will subject both sides to that supreme attritional factor of tropical warfare........disease.
Thread tax. If the Japanese get held up on their advance down the malay peninsula, the ligistic burden will not be lessened, as a certain poster here seems to believe. It will in fact require more supplies of all types to sustain a longer offensive. Also, a less rapid advance implies a stronger resistance, which will result in an increase in casualties. Plus, extending the time period will subject both sides to that supreme attritional factor of tropical warfare........disease.