I was hiding once in a very remote area and we crested a hill and there were two moose grazing right beside the path. We watched them from a distance for awhile - beautiful animals. But we realized the only way forward to go was past them and they didn't appear to plan to leave anytime soon. They kept an eye on us. We couldn't go off the pass on the other side as it was a marsh so we had to just walk right past them. It was terrifying and I mostly kept my head down to avoid eye contact. They did stop grazing and look at us and one made a snorting sound but thankfully we made it past unscathed. That was my close moose encounter which thankfully ended well other than I didn't really get to enjoy being in close proximity as I was focsedon survival! I have seen many many black bears in the wild - they tend to run as soon as you make noise. Had a grizzly that hung around our tent for awhile one time, that was a bit nerve wracking. Apparently there were berries close to the tent and he was having a meal but he brushed against the tent quite a few times.

Anonymous wrote:Mooses? It's just Moose.

It is!
What is the plural of moose?
The plural of “moose” is the same as the singular: “moose.” It's one of a group of plural nouns in English that are identical to the corresponding singular nouns. So it's wrong to write “mooses.” For example, you might write “There are several moose in the forest.”

I wonder what time of year these events usually occur.
I grew up in Minnesota, and the moose population was high in the 80s, dropped later due I think to a particular parasite. My dad did not normally hunt but got a license with 3 buddies one year. After they killed a cow and two of the guys left to get a tractor and loader, bull moose showed up and the two guys left got pretty nervous but nothing happened. This was November, which was also rutting season. Incidentally, the meat was great. It was farm country, so they were eating grains and alfalfa and sunflower seeds instead of tree bark. (THey also, my dad told me, were very fond of hazelnuts, which grew wild there but were always eaten by animals before we got any).

Anonymous wrote:I also thought it was meese.

Like Ed?

*For oldsters.

I also thought it was meese.

Anonymous wrote:If moose kill more people, it's from cars hitting them: in moose v. car, the driver loses. Just like deer have a high murder rate because of car collisions.

I understand that in Australia, hitting a kangaroo with your car is similarly common and fatal.

I’ve hit a roo or two but fortunately emerged unscathed. People who live in the outback often fit roo or bull bars to their cars.

https://www.irvinbullbars.com.au/roobars-perth/

Is there a moose bar?

Mooses? It's just Moose.

I grew up in moose country and they never made me nervous. However as an adult on a camping trip in a remote area, a bull moose ran up to our campsite at dusk and circled our site several times. It stayed in the trees but we could hear it circling, over and over. We quickly broke down camp, threw everything in our canoe, and paddled away. Once we were about twenty feet off shore, the moose came onto the little beach and stared at us until we were out of site. Almost peed my pants, and I’ll never underestimate a moose again.

I live in an area with moose and we have them in our backyard a few times a year. They are funny looking animals that can easily send you to the hospital. They will instinctively trample a dog. They don’t seem as scary as animals who can eat you, but their size alone is enough to keep you at a distance. A couple of years ago, a moose collided with a snowboarder, knocking him out. I would guess that most people injured by moose either ran into them by surprise or approached them unadvisedly. People go gaga over baby moose and getting close to a baby moose is really asking for trouble. They are very very cute, it’s true.