Moose are a natural part of their ecosystem (and probably exist in far fewer numbers than they used to thanks to human hunting and habit encroachment) and belch no more greenhouse gases than they have for a millennia. They are not part of the problem.

To read that Norwegians are concerned about the role their national animal might be playing in global warming just shows how the media is confusing people about what the issues really are.

Cows on the other hand, which exist in their present form and numbers only through human intervention for the sole purpose of feeding a growing population of carnivores can been seen as a problem ... but it even then it is us, not the cows, that bear the blame for any increase in bovine gaseousness.

If a twigg falls in the forest but nobody is there to hear it, it's probably best because there is bound to be cussing.

*Sarcasm alert

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

Excellent comment, Tommy Twigg.  Confusion is the enemy of the human race.

Does America have a "national animal"?  I was going to propose the Little White Dog, who farts very little, and poops modestly (enough on that elsewhere).  But LWD just said, "Bug off, and talk to my agent."

So my next pick is Hadrosaurus, a Cretaceous dinosaur from New Jersey, who is in all the history-of-biology books (or ought to be), and who is doing nobody any harm any more (and probably never did).

Thanks for that footnote, BioD.  I never would have picked up on the sarcasm otherwise.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.