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Grew up here in Alaska. Every bear I've encounter has acted reasonably. Moose act like cracked out meth heads looking for their next fix.
Oh, and the plural of moose is meese. But I prefer to call them snow camels.
Saw one advertised near Ellsworth. Was tempting because I'd really like to see one but decided I didn't want to see one cooped up and on display. That just seemed wrong. So I never did see a moose.
Zoos don't have moose but will have lions and tigers and bears (oh my).
Well, I've never seen a moose as a zoo exhibit.
I'll bet you haven't visited every zoo in existence. Some zoos certainly do have them, but they are typically solitary and each individual requires a relatively large area which makes them a complicated and expensive animal to keep. They aren't suited for some climates either.
Can moose's attack people? Like one time when the dog musher, Susan Butcher and her dogs were attacked by a crazed moose on the trail during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1985. The moose was also pregnant.
Yeah.
They have crappy eye sight. After like 20 feet it gets fuzzy.
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Originally Posted by jamies
The problem with moose's (mice?) is when you hit one in a car they tend to fly right through the window and kill you, rather than getting knocked aside like a deer, as your bumper knocks their legs out from under them and their body lands on the hood and window.
Therefore in Montana and other moosey places like Yellowstone you should drive a Miata, so you can just go underneath them!
And that is my sage advice for the day.
If hitting a moose is inevitable you speed you. If you break, you probably die.
If you hit a moose at a low speed you're going to die.
Put the bottle down before posting. Hitting a moose at any speed ain't good but the faster you are going the worse it is going to be.
Just yesterday, we were driving back from our cabin and came upon a late model pickup truck that looked like it had a very bad day. There was another car pulled over with flashers on and a bunch of stuff piled on the shoulder. We pulled off to see if we could help with whatever was going on. It turned out to be the aftermath of that pickup colliding with a moose.
The truck was totaled. The airbags saved the occupants from serious injures. The moose carcass had already been salvaged but there was quite the blood stain on the highway. The woman in the car was just watching over the stuff on the shoulder waiting for her husband's friend to come back and retrieve it. Apparently it was a pretty large bull moose.
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