The video was reportedly shot in B.C. though conservation officers are still trying to determine the location.
A video posted on YouTube appearing to show a man jumping off a boat and onto the back of a swimming moose has caught the attention of authorities in British Columbia.
In the video, a boat is seen speeding toward a swimming moose and when it closes in, a man wearing plaid trunks jumps onto its back. There are at least three other men in the boat who begin laughing raucously as the man is taken away by the moose, one arm raised in the air in triumph.
"I’ve never seen something so awesome," says one of the men on the boat.
The video was posted on YouTube on June 22 by Wolftracker TV. According to posts on a B.C. hunting forum, the video was originally posted on Facebook but has since been deleted.
Steve and Chris Wolfe, the pair behind Wolftracker, said the video was shot near Fort St. John, B.C. last July, although BuzzFeed Canada has not been able to independently verify those details. They said the behaviour shown in the video is "disgusting" and "goes against everything we stand for."
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Conservation officers in Fort St. John told BuzzFeed Canada they are now investigating the video. If found, the men could face animal harassment charges.
"The general public has been in contact with us and there have been some names that have been forwarded to us," said Sgt. David Vince of the Fort St. John Conservation Office, who first saw the video himself on Monday morning.
With no clear faces in the video, they're trying to determine where the video was shot. Sgt. Vince said the teal hue indicates glacial water and identifying the surrounding mountains will help narrow down a location.
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Under the B.C. wildlife act, harassing animals includes anything that may "worry, exhaust, fatigue, annoy, plague, pester, tease or torment" them.
While some comments on Reddit and Twitter found the stunt funny, one commenter on the Hunting B.C. forum called it "a disgusting display of animal cruelty and that any person attempting such an act, is fact not a sportsman at all but a f*#@ing idiot, and should be dealt with accordingly."
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