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I have yet to ever run across a moose, thankfully.
Deer and bear, and watched that idiot with the jeep.
The arm flapping was hysterical to watch for a few seconds, but i really didn’t want to watch him get stomped.

We get city transplants out here and it seems they either think the animals are tame and want their pictures taken with them, or they want the deer crossing signs removed as they no longer want the deer crossing there.

Well, this bull notwithstanding, moose are usually pretty benign. They used to bumble through our campsite, occasionally. More of a nuisance than anything else. About the only thing that I was afraid of was that one might step on me while I was asleep.

On the other hand, I once came within arm's length of an eagle. We were both intently fishing the same stretch of river. I was on the riverbank, trying to navigate a tight ravine, he was on a tree overhanging the ravine. Each of us realized that the other was there at the same time. We both let out loud squawks, and decided that we had other places to be at that moment.

I gotta tell ya, an adult eagle, at a range of 3-4 feet away, is a really, really big bird. Startlingly huge. That's not an event that I'd like to repeat. :-)