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Old 10-19-2018, 10:10 AM
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Default Antelope in Waiparous?

Anyone ever saw Antelope in Waiparous area?

Reason I am asking, I saw a torn up Antelope yesterday near the Forestry Trunk Road. Legs ripped apart and strewn about, ribcage had been picked apart, and head nearby with horns ripped off. Looks like it was freshly killed.
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Old 10-19-2018, 11:51 AM
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I think you answered your own question
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Old 10-19-2018, 12:49 PM
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lol. not a chance , looks like you found a goat
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Old 10-19-2018, 12:54 PM
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Nope, it was definitely an antelope.

I am assuming then it was poachers that killed the thing in the prairies and dumped it.

Not sure why they would drive all that distance to dump it in the woods though.
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Old 10-19-2018, 01:47 PM
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Carcass dump? Not necessarily an illegal kill and just dumped the skeleton and hide in crown land?
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Old 10-19-2018, 02:30 PM
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Carcass dump? Not necessarily an illegal kill and just dumped the skeleton and hide in crown land?
Unlikely because there were 4 legs strewn about and scattered (by predators most likely) and they all still had meat and hide on them.

The animal had horns at one point, but looked like they had been cut off. Unless a predator ripped them off?
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Old 10-19-2018, 02:54 PM
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you have a pic
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Old 10-19-2018, 04:45 PM
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Unlikely because there were 4 legs strewn about and scattered (by predators most likely) and they all still had meat and hide on them.

The animal had horns at one point, but looked like they had been cut off. Unless a predator ripped them off?
Someone got a spoiled carcass they wanted to dispose of ?

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Old 10-20-2018, 09:47 AM
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Someone got a spoiled carcass they wanted to dispose of ?
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^Most likely. That, or a trophy poacher who took the horns and dumped the carcass (but in that case, I would have thought they'd take the full head/cape).
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Old 10-21-2018, 09:36 AM
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you have a pic
Saw a caribou off transalata road yesterday too.. couldn't get a picture tho!
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:28 AM
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Saw a caribou off transalata road yesterday too.. couldn't get a picture tho!
Anything is possible. Saw 2 antelope on the west side of the QE 2, near Olds once and supposedly there was one sighted near Harmattan, many years ago, according to an Old Timer. Goat found just west of Cremona, not that long ago.

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Old 10-21-2018, 10:35 AM
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there is a small herd of antelope north east of Lloydminster
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Old 10-21-2018, 12:26 PM
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there is a small herd of antelope north east of Lloydminster
Seen a pic of one by Tullibee lake about 15 years ago.
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Old 10-21-2018, 12:42 PM
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Yup..seen them between lloyd and onion lake last year
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Old 10-21-2018, 09:37 PM
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I saw one just two or three weeks back dead in a ditch on 22 just out side of turner valley.

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Old 10-21-2018, 10:03 PM
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Seen three antelope on the west side of hwy 2 15 kms south of leduc a few years ago.
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:08 PM
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Seen three antelope on the west side of hwy 2 15 kms south of leduc a few years ago.
They were East of Nisku on airport road too... about 16-17 years ago.

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Old 10-22-2018, 12:42 AM
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Saw 3 by Josephburg in spring 2016.
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