Here is a beautiful boy I photographed at Sprague Lake in RMNP.
Stupid is as...
The two guys were idiots.
The guy with the camera totally egged them on and challenged them. They got stupider the more he “tried to talk them out of it”.
Camera guy was not an effective persuader.
Good but, I wanted to see the moose really trample one of those idiots.
Language nsfw.
He should have shown the aftermath.
The guide on a Tauck tour of Canada parks pointed out the moutain goats. The Japanese tourists from another tour were trying to provoke a reaction from the goats. The goats, according to the guide where extremely stressed. She pointed out the clues including, if memory serves, the ruffled back fur, the hunched shoulders, the males being between the females and calf’s and the tourists...the list was lengthy. She said it would be extremely dangerous to approach them the way the Japanese were, or, at all. I don’t recall any tourists getting lunged at, but the guide rattled off statistics of animal attacks and they were pretty bad. All of the attacks were due to people trying to get photos. Selfies weren’t a thing at that time, so I imagine the stats are worse today.
Love it.
I went white water rafting up in Northern Maine many years ago, and we had to park our car and take a bus the last five miles or so to the area where we would enter the river, and it was thick wilderness.
However, as we got close to the dropoff area, there was a gigantic bull moose standing on the side of the narrow road. It was so huge that its head was level with bus windows, and the enormous rack disappeared above the window.
I had never seen a moose close up in the wild, and certainly not one that big.
I recall it had kind of beady, placid eyes, as it just stood there with those uninterested eyes, chewing whatever it was chewing on.
And there was a person, about five feet away from it, taking pictures of it.
The bus driver stopped the bus and hissed at the guy with the camera “Get away from that moose, you stupid idiot! That thing will kill you!”
As he pulled away, muttering, he said to nobody in particular: “People think they can walk up to those things the same way they can walk up to a cow or a horse because they look so calm, standing there motionless, chewing their food. But they can change in an instant, especially in rutting season, to a man-stomping human killer, and when they are that big, it doesn’t take any effort at all for them!”
The whole time he was saying this to nobody in particular, he was shaking his head from side-to-side.
That was a Classic “Hold My Beer” moment.
If something outweighs you 10x over, leave it alone.
There’s a reason our ancestors called them “animals”. It was idiots like Walt Disney who turned them into walking, talking, weird-looking human beings.
I was driving through SE Washington wheat country near Prescott, when all the cars stopped. There was a young bull walking through the wheat towards the farmhouse. One of the other drivers said to me lets go get a closer look. I told him my sister was bitten by a moose and declined. I guess he thought better and drove off.
Old video, but still just as satisfying.
Another reason never to drink alcohol.
Here is a beautiful boy I photographed at Sprague Lake in RMNP.
Were their sisters there?
From the article:
“Moose are common in one of the Treasure State’s tourism hotspots, and visitors should always give them the respect they deserve.”
Lies!
During our most recent visit to Yellowstone, we drove all over the park looking for moose. They weren’t there!
When a moose comes walking down main street you should just stay in the bar and watch from the window.