Posted on 04/19/2025 7:43:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
Millions of people around the world are tuning it watch the Swedish moose migrate to their summer grazing pastures.
"Den Stora Älgvandringen" aka "The Great Moose Migration" is an example of what is known as "slow TV", where people watch nature on live-capture cameras, instead of going out and experiencing it for themselves.
The moose live feed runs for 20 days, 24/7, and includes the moose walking the same trek they have for 1000s of years, including crossing the Ångerman River, 186 miles north of Stockholm.
https://www.svtplay.se/den-stora-algvandringen
We have the same thing here in the states like this eagle live feed of a bald eagle raising her chicks.
https://www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nfGcuE
To be fair, the moose and the eagles would kill you if you got as close as these cameras are, so I kind of appreciate the up-close views of the wildlife, but the Swedes have taken slow TV to a whole other level.
The crew has laid 20,000 metres of cable and positioned 26 remote cameras and seven night cameras. A drone is also being used to capture shots of the animals.
And the people are eating it up by the millions.
Here are a couple of examples:
Before Swedish slow TV hit "The Great Moose Migration" began airing Tuesday, Ulla Malmgren stocked up on coffee and prepared meals. She doesn't want to miss a moment of the 20-day, 24-hour event.
‘Sleep? Forget it. I don't sleep,' she said.
And
‘I feel relaxed, but at the same time I'm like, "Oh, there's a moose, oh! What if there's a moose? I can't go to the toilet!"' said William Garp Liljefors.
‘I was late to school because I saw moose and my teacher was like, "What, you saw moose in the city?" And I was like, "No, it's on the TV."'
Get a grip, people!
[Spoiler Alert]
Just to see what it was all about, I tuned in, and I'll give you my honest review. I did see moose languidly hanging out in the trees live, but as a I scrolled the proceeding hours of footage, there huge swaths of time where there aren't any moose at all.
It's beautiful country, but there' literally nothing happening most of the time.
I think I'd prefer to just rewatch my preferred Swedish moose show instead.
A Moose herd once migrated my sister.
That sounds illegal.
I’m just here for the sister comments. The moose thing is cool too.
Excellent.
beautiful animals. I’ve always liked animals better than people. They are exactly who they are, Can’t lie.
I clicked on the link and it was in Swedish. I didn’t know what to click on but made wild guesses and scrolled through different Swedish boxes and must have clicked on the wrong one. I got the Great Swedish Mouse Migration instead. My cat is having a ball.
Well I’d rather watch that than golf.
They should epoxy some cameras onto the mooses.
You go first.....................
If golf is close to holding your interest, that is, if it's almost not too boring to watch, there's a television sport I think would be a fit: baseball. Those extra-inning pitcher duals aren't as boring as television golf, but they're close!
Fine, but you have to distract them for me.
They call moose “Älk”.
So, if you eat too much moose you take Älk-a-seltzer................
translated into Swedish Chef:
Miljon-er af pöörfölk runt om i värld-en är tjoho-ing ött att se di Swed-isch moose-mooisar migra-ta till der sommar-grazy-gras! “Den Stooora Mårgälvondringen” aka “De Gröt Moose-migra-tin” är ett exempel på vatt det kallas “slow TV”, där pöörfölk ser natural de live-capture kamäärar, istället för att gå ut å upplev-it för sig själv! Woppa woppa!
Plural “Älgen” (pronounced like “Alien”).
“No Realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of a interspace toothbrush given to her by Svenge her brother in law, an Oslo Dentist”....
Yes I looked it up.
Good one!
Only Älkamists are allowed ,to eat moose meat
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