A moose once bit my sister.
I was walking in the North Idaho woods with my daughter across the road from her house. She suddenly said in a hushed voice, “Turn around and start walking home very fast.” So I did. She told me why later. There was a moose a few feet away in the woods and if it had a young one, it would charge us. If we ran it might charge us too.
Magnificent animals, and the woods were theirs first. I have great respect for them.
Why the hell would any sane person get that close to a moose????
My father always advised me to give moose a lot of room - they are so stupid that even they don’t know what they are going to do. As the video showed, moose are extremely fast for something that big.
My brother and I use to do a lot of fly fishing around the West Yellowstone area. I had been fly fishing and was walking back to the car along side a tributary to the Gallatin River and I was this moose by the river. All of a sudden he made a charge at me but fortunately I was able to get behind some Pine trees and he eventually went away. Same scenario happen to my brother on the South Fork of the Madison River.
“Hey Rocky, watch me stomp this guy into smithereens!”
Moose all over my town. Everyone just stays the hell out of the way. They are unpredictable, mean, and very fast.
Only problem is when one decides to take a multi-day break under your deck, lays down, and does not move for 3 days.
Don’t pet the bison.
I went white water rafting up in Maine some years back, and we went a good distance north, taking a bus the last bunch of miles.
As we approached the jumping off point in the bus, there was an enormous bull moose standing by the side of the road, probably not five feet off the road, and the head was level with the windows, and the enormous, bowl shaped rack went even higher than the windows. (It actually looked at least about the size of the one you linked to in the video)
I was astonished, I had never seen a full grown moose up close like that, and it was simply massive.
As we passed slowly we saw a guy with a camera standing only feet away from the moose, snapping pictures as the moose seemed to passively regard him with those beady moose eyes, chewing cud as if it were just a big cow.
The bus came to a stop, and the driver hissed out the driver window at the guy with the camera something like “Get the f**k away from that moose, you damn fool! Those things can kill you!’
Then he put it into gear and kept going, I recall hearing him mutter all the way up to the place, and I could imagine what he was saying. When we stopped and got off the bus, I remarked on the moose, and the driver said something like “Unbelievable. Those things can go from chewing cud to tearing the crap out of something in no time at all if the mood hits them!”
Funny. That trip was also memorable for another reason-when we got there and were waiting to be processed and given equipment, there were photos all over one wall of rafters and instructors/guides.
I saw one picture of an instructor, and the guy was so insane and deranged looking in the picture, I burst out laughing and said to my friends “Hey, get a load of this guy! How would you like to have HIM as your guide???”
When the guides came out and joined up with groups, I nearly choked...you guessed it, that was our man! Heh, it was good, and we did have a lot of fun.
Are Moose very mobile at night, or not usually?
I’ve heard stories of Bears sneaking up on campers in tents, but I have not heard much about Moose attacking or being that nosy.
I read the Indian novel “Antlers in the Tree” otherwise named Who Goosed the Moose.
I heard a story (which may or may not be true) about a bull moose up in Alaska who got pissed off at a train and charged it. Derailed the train. Killed himself in the process.