Les Murrell，经Ken Tustin
1927年，驼鹿站在峡湾的海沃思河上。
对于新西兰猎鹿教父肯·图斯廷来说，这种批评持续了几代人。
他说：“我受到了相当多的抨击，我很清楚有些人认为我有点古怪。”
“但是我知道我的鹿，而且我是一个训练有素的生物学家，当你面对新的迹象时，你完全可以毫无疑问地看到你在看什么。”
他说，这听起来不太可能，但“当你面对这样的信号时，你所有的小小的怀疑都消失了，你认为，天哪，比赛开始了。”
在峡湾地区，驼鹿的数量可能很小，只是一个种群片段的一部分。他们将与鹿争夺食物，鹿在20世纪70年代大规模捕杀后数量激增，时间紧迫。
在狩猎了将近半个世纪的驼鹿之后，塔斯廷竟然对他可能永远也见不到驼鹿的想法感到惊讶。
“我一生中会看到一个吗？可能不会。会有其他人吗？他们可能会的。我会很高兴的。这是一个很持久的故事，我很喜欢它在某些方面仍然是一个谜。”
他描绘了这一时刻——摇摇晃晃地穿过灌木丛，空气中有驼鹿的气味，几米之外的森林巨人，在黑暗中的某个地方。如果那一刻到来，他甚至连相机都拿不到。
他说：“我不会浪费宝贵的一眼对一眼的时间。”我只想享受这一刻。”
时间线
1910年：在菲奥德兰的晚餐湾放生了十只驼鹿。
1929年：猎人埃迪·赫里克在新西兰射杀了第一头获得许可的公牛驼鹿。
1934年：赫里克在1934年射杀了第二只公牛驼鹿。
1952年：这只驼鹿被认为已经灭绝，直到珀西·莱斯，三个猎鹿人中的一员，宣称是第三只公牛驼鹿。罗宾·弗朗西斯·史密斯，在同一次旅行中，拍摄了一只峡湾驼鹿的最后一张经过核实的照片。
1971年：猎人戈登·安德森声称杀死了一头驼鹿，但他的说法没有得到证实。林业局的KenTustin发现了一只铸鹿角。
1995年：一台远程摄像机捕捉到一只看起来像驼鹿的模糊图像，但它仍然没有被证实。
2001年：从峡湾采集的头发样本被发现是驼鹿的起源，证实了驼鹿的现代存在。
2005年：更多的头发样本被送往加拿大大学进行DNA测试。其中一个样品也被证实是驼鹿的起源。
2011年：服装公司Hallensteins提供10万美元的菲奥德兰驼鹿照片奖。
2018年：猎人们报告了鹿啃食和折断树枝的新迹象，偶尔还有脚印。安装了新的远程摄像机。
LES MURRELL, VIA KEN TUSTIN
Moose standing in Fiordland's Seaforth River in 1927.
For Ken Tustin, the godfather of New Zealand moose hunting, the criticism has lasted across generations.
"I get a fair bit of flak, and I'm quite aware that some people think of me as a bit of a crank," he says.
"But I know my deer, and I'm a biologist by training, and when you're confronted with fresh sign, you're left in absolutely no doubt at what you're looking at."
It sounds unlikely, he says, but "when you're confronted with sign like that, any niggling little doubts you have just totally evaporate and you think, my goodness, the game is on."
The number of moose in Fiordland would likely be small, a population fragment of a population fragment. They would be competing for food with deer, which are flourishing in number after the mass culls in the 1970s. Time is running short.
After nearly half a century hunting moose, Tustin is surprisingly unbothered by the idea he may never see one.
"Will I see one in my lifetime? Probably not. Will someone else? They probably will. I'd get a great kick out of that. The story's quite an enduring one, and I quite like it remaining a mystery, in some respects."
He has pictured the moment - staggering through the bush, the scent of moose in the air, the colossus of the forest just metres away, somewhere in the dark. If that moment comes, he won't even reach for his camera.
"I wouldn't waste that precious moment of seeing one eyeball to eyeball," he says. "I'd just enjoy the moment."
TIMELINE
1910: Ten moose are released at Supper Cove in Fiordland.
1929: Hunter Eddie Herrick shoots the first bull moose under licence in New Zealand.
1934: Herrick shoots the second bull moose in 1934.
1952: The moose are presumed extinct, until Percy Lyes, part of a trio of deer cullers, claims third bull moose. Robin Francis Smith, on the same trip, takes the last verified photo of a Fiordland moose.
1971: Hunter Gordon Anderson claims to have killed a moose, but his claims were unconfirmed. Ken Tustin, for the forestry service, finds a cast antler.
1995: A remote camera catches blurry images of what appears to be a moose, but it remains unconfirmed.
2001: A hair sample taken from Fiordland is found to be of moose origin, confirming the modern-day presence of moose.
2005: Dozens more hair samples are sent to a Canadian University for DNA testing. One of those samples is also confirmed to be of moose origin.
2011: Clothing company Hallensteins offers a $100,000 prize for photos of a Fiordland moose.
2018: Hunters report new signs of what appear to be moose - chewed and snapped branches out of reach of deer, occasional footprints. New remote cameras are set up.