I've a moose once while fishing. I stayed the fark away from it. Any animal that big I wasn't going to approach. A few years ago I read about a woman getting kicked in the face by a moose. I wondered if she thought "Oh, how adorable! It's Bullwinkle! I'm sure he would like to be petted!"

Noticed my mistake. I saw a moose once while fishing.

Big Merl: Nice Holy Grail reference. If you quoted that from memory you may be in need of a life. Great movie though.

Mind y0u, m00se bites can be pretty nasty...

So now moose are catch-and-release?

Since this is a "I've been closer to moose than you" contest, here's mine.

Middle of the night, camping in the woods. I hear some rustling in a clump of pine trees nearby. We shine our flightlights over, and a huge mother moose and her 2 kids walk out. They're probably no more than 10-20 yards away. All we could see is a rough outline, and their eery glowing eyes.. I briefly thought about jumping between the mom and her kids, but I heard that's a bad idea. =) Anyways, like all my other moose encounters, they just look at you and walk on...they know you're too small to hurt them.

On a side note, what are baby moose called? Mooselings? Meese? Mini-Mooses?

On a side note, what are baby moose called? Mooselings? Meese? Mini-Mooses?

Lunch.

Having lived in various parts of the country, I can issue the following warnings:

Leave the moose alone. There are NO nice mooses.

Leave the buffalo alone. There are NO nice buffalo.

Leave the bears alone. There are NO nice bears.


That being said, I can also say that I've enjoyed the company of several nice marmots, some mountain sheep who let me spend an hour with their herd, and some wild goats who were just as curious about me as I was about them.

*has spent a lot of time hanging out with wild creatures*

Wait, I thought Rosie O'Donnel was only into girls?

/un-pc quota fufilled for the day

On a side note, what are baby moose called? Mooselings? Meese? Mini-Mooses?

I don't believe there is a specific name for a young moose; they are generally called just that.

Recap: Calves would be the closest thing, I believe.

Rosie O'Donnel has a pair of 400lbs calves just below her knees.

having lived in maine for a little bit, i know enough to leave moose the hell alone. if you see one eating from a dumpster, rubbing against your mailbox, or standing pensively in a gas station parking lot, just let it finish whatever it was doing.

also if you hit one with your car and happen to kill it, you get to keep the meat, which is nice.

Young moose are called calves. Adult males are called bulls. Adult females are called cows.

Here's all you need to know about Alces alces, the world's largest member of the deer family:

http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/biggame/moose.php

way to go bullwinkle

way to go (i R copycat)


/un-pc quota fulfilled for the day

My Dad once almost hit an Elk in Sweden with his car. I imagine the car would have come off worse. Are Swedish Elk the same as American Moose?

Yes, but they need a translator.

it's a wild horse with rocking chairs on its' head... don't go pet it.

Isn't 800 pounds a bit light for a moose? I though most moose were around 1500 pounds.

Theres a moose loose aboot the hoose

I'm afraid thats about all I'm able to add to this thread at present. Sorry.

Rocky & Bullwinkle jokes in ..3 ..2 ..1

In Scotland a moose is a wee furry squeaky thing that only goes fur cheese.

I hate the mornings. I read that as "800lbs men attacks 3 moose".

I was hoping there was a pic.

Scottish moose:

Playing my 'As a kid I grew up in Maine'-Card.


Seen plenty of moose as a kid. Never saw an aggressive one. Ever. They don't give two shiats about you, they are too big. You can canoe, walk, or snowmobile by them. If they are uncomfortable with your presence, they just walk away. Don't get me wrong, you don't provoke a moose - it's a frickin HUGE animal, and it can mess you up.... but only when provoked.


Morale is.. IMHO, these three yahoo's were provoking this moose, trying to get close and get their picture taken with it or some stupid shiat like that. Maybe they threw something at it. ...that moose was provoked to attack like that.


They are awesome animals, and I recommend this area of Maine if you ever want to see them in the wild, everywhere.

Thank you binnster

Bliad the Impaler:
Leave the moose alone. There are NO nice mooses.
Leave the buffalo alone. There are NO nice buffalo.
Leave the bears alone. There are NO nice bears.

That being said, I can also say that I've enjoyed the company of several nice marmots, some mountain sheep who let me spend an hour with their herd, and some wild goats who were just as curious about me as I was about them.

Okay, they're not nice. Stop trying to have sex with them and maybe they'll be nicer.

/me mumbles something derogatory about spending an hour with sheep

Kick 'em in the nutsack, at least then he's gotta reason to stomp ya.

Oh, and speaking of not-nice animals and Monthy Python references: I hear there are some pretty mean rabbits out there...with nasty pointy teeth.

Isn't 800 pounds a bit light for a moose? I though most moose were around 1500 pounds.

They're tall but pretty gangly. I used to drive draft horses that were around 1500 lbs, and they were nearly as tall as a moose, but with much more musculature.

I grew up in a swampy area outside of Edmonton, Alberta, and we had a ton of moose. I would wake up to go to school and there'd be 1-3 of them in my driveway. Definitely took the LONG way around to catch my bus....

wgb423:

I can also play that card. I remember hearing on the local news when I was a kid about a moose going apeshiat and taking out a whole parking lot full of cars. Thankfully I never got too close to one myself.

Good fishing at Moosehead.

Hail moose, you stupid weak humans.

800 lbs. *is* light for a moose. Must have been a juvenile. Or maybe something about Utah moose.

People *are* that stupid around them. Moose run all over town here in the Winter, and it's nearly impossible to train immigrants to stay away from them.

Hey Rocky! Watch me trample a coffin-dodger!

Again?

Nothin' up my sleeve...presto!

This reminds me of that video that was floating around the intarweb a few years back (ok, maybe longer) of those kids throwing snowballs at a moose in Alaska, getting him real pissed, then some guy walks by and the moose has had enough of stupid humans and decides to stomp the guy to death.

/is that really one long sentence?

why hasn't anyone welcomed our new meese overlords!!?? if you aren't nice they will become agitated and kill us all!!

gg bullwinkle

Is it better to be attacked by an 800 pound moose, or by 800 1 pound moose?

Moose are nasty creatures, my sister was bitten by a Moose once...

Ahhh so thats what Rosies been up to..havent seen much of her in the news lately (sarcasm)

Mmmmm.... moose. Seriously, if you've never had moose-meat before, you owe it to yourself to give it a try.

800lbs is indeed pretty lightweight for a moose. Then again, I'm used to the moose that live in BC and the Yukon. HUGE critters, they be.

Gee...it was not that long ago that a story on fark about a moose being shot by a hunter got all sorts of responses on the lines of...they just stand there and never do anything qickly so are just like stationary targets. Moose never hurt anyone so why should hunters feel the need to shoot them, they should just use a knife...no shiat, I remember stuff like this being written on fark. So now a story like this comes along and all of a sudden moose are these big fast dangerous critters...but, let another hunting story come along..and see how fast they become docile slow moving friendly critters once more.
People can be so farking fickle in their convictions sometimes.

ahh parleys summit. Amazing we can do 80 mph through there on 6 lane super highway. I have a theory on the early Mormon settlers. I think Brigham Young got to the watsach front and said "fark-it....were here....where my biatches at ?"

Hmm... Bad luck for the fellas, but I really thought they cancelled that Anna Nicole Smith show thingee a while back.

Is that a moose in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? I guess not...