Question about moose (meece?)

[raccoon]

We don’t have them in my state. But if you are outside and you see one not too far away from you is he or she to be feared?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. You want to stay out of their way. They're huge and will fuck you up.

[mobeau69]

2. Plural is moose.

And you'd have no worries at all.

[Roland99]

18. Moosen! There were many much moosen

[MrsCoffee]

3. The plural of moose is moose.

They aren’t usually aggressive towards humans unless provoked or frightened.

[PJMcK]

4. Moose are not your friends

Give them a wide berth.

While they are relatively sedentary, if they are frightened or startled they can charge. They're big beasts!

[MontanaMama]

5. We've got them.

In fact there was a cow and calf in my neighborhood for a couple weeks in February...there were hanging in lower elevations because the snow is so deep in the higher elevations right now and they can’t find food. They were tranquilized and moved because of their proximity to humans...I was really sad about it...sad that the humans wouldn’t leave them alone. Everybody had to have a photo of them and were following them around. They wouldn’t have been down here had they not needed to be. Regardless, I’d give a moose a wider berth than I would a bear...especially a cow with a calf. They don’t tolerate any shenanigans around their calves.

[peacefreak2.0]

6. I keep my distance.

Years ago I was sitting by a pond when I heard rustling behind me. An adolescent moose came out of the brush. He was as shocked as I was. I stayed as still as I could & waited until he was on the other side of the pond. I got up & moved out of the area. He watched me the entire time. Up close, he was huge & powerful. I ran into a ranger on my way back to my cabin. He was letting people know that there was one nearby. I told him HOW nearby!

[edhopper]

7. Very dangerous

especially during mating season.

In Alaska they are a bigger threat than bears

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/dangerous-moose.htm

Although moose aren't more dangerous than bears in terms of behavior, they pose a greater threat of injuring you simply because of their population size. Moose outnumber bears nearly three to one in Alaska, wounding around five to 10 people in the state annually. That's more than grizzly bear and black bear attacks combined.

[handmade34]

8. not feared

but cautious... and give them room... Moose are not normally aggressive but will attack when feeling threatened...

https://www.outdoors.org/articles/amc-outdoors/responding-to-moose-encounters

Anxious or agitated moose can display a range of warning signs.

They may lay their ears back. The hair on the back of the neck and above the hips might stand up. They could smack their lips, show the whites of their eyes, toss their head upward like a horse, or even urinate on their back legs. If you see any of these warning signs, it is a clear indication that you are too close and in a potentially dangerous situation. However, moose may exhibit none of these warning signs—until they abruptly charge.

“What people really need to understand is that these behavioral cues can happen very quickly,” notes Lee Kantar, state deer and moose biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. “They can whirl and be on you in a second if they feel you’re too darned close,”

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Anything larger than a chihuahua gets my wary respect.

Especially during "the rut" when all the male mooses are scrambling for a date. (Hint: That's a statue on the left.)

Remember: That could be you (especially if the moose has had a few drinks).

[world wide wally]

10. Only mountain lions are considered to be more dangerous than moose in North America

[bluedigger]

11. Respect them and give them their space.

They are generally pretty passive, but, like any wild animal, don't like feeling trapped or surrounded. Maine has a lottery system for hunting them to control the population, where about 97% of those who win a chance get their moose, with the biggest challenge being finding one close enough to a road to get it out of the woods. They're huge. Otherwise, it's like walking up to a cow and shooting it. If you do ever encounter one, it's good to know that they kick with their front feet, not their back, like a horse, or donkey.

[Mendocino]

12. I was in Maine,

descending Mt. Katahdin. We got down to Chimney Pond, encountering a bull moose. We spent almost an hour in a tree.

They are normally docile but if they are in rut, beware. Elk and buffalo react the same way, unpredictable.

This is the hike up Mt. Kathadin, not my video.[link:

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[keithbvadu2]

17. Doesn't look so difficult as much as it does 'no room for error'.

[DontBooVote]

13. Not feared, respected. I have some experience with meeses, love them to pieces. But they are def

something to be viewed from a distance.

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. A moose once bit my sister

So....yeah. Give them a wide berth.

It also helps if you don’t carve your initials into them

[smirkymonkey]

15. A Mse once bit my sister... No realli!

She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti. Møøse trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA Special Møøse Effects OLAF PROT Møøse Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILL. Møøse Choreographed by HORST PROT III, Miss Taylor's Møøses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME, Møøse trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG.

Møøses' noses wiped by BJØRN IRKESTØM-SLATER WALKER, Large møøse on the left hand side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and "O" Level Geography by BO BENN ,Suggestive poses for the Møøse suggested by VIC ROTTER, Antler-care by LIV THATCHER.

Sorry, that's all I know about Moose.

[mercuryblues]

16. It is a good idea to get out of their way

My aunt accidentally got between a Mom moose and her babies. The moose took a few gallops in her direction. She saw the moose, turned her head and saw the babies behind her and backed out as fast as she could, without making eye contact. As she said, she was slipping in her own shit on the way out.