There you go, making wildly irresponsible assumptions based upon factless speculation. Your characterization about my original post is incorrect. My followup post merely adds clarification & more facts. Would you prefer that make up my own facts & definitions as you do? I dont believe in "alternative facts" &  as the saying goes, while you entitled to your own opinion, you are not entitled to your own facts.  You hypocritically speculate about a trooper "who could have shot the moose and it may have knocked it unconscious, but only had shallow breathing and perhaps they they assumed it was on it's  way out so yada, yada, yada." Pure, unadulterated speculation. A lot of things "could have" happened.  I've watched more animals than I care to remember take their last breaths. But I never immediately jumped to the conclusion they were dead. It had to be proven. Lack of oxygen to the brain almost immediately causes irreversable brain damage so that it cannot function to sustain the body.