Luvlyquants
32904
1113
12
credit https://www.instagram.com/wildlife.and.animals/
Jan 16, 2026 3:30 PM
Luvlyquants
32904
1113
12
credit https://www.instagram.com/wildlife.and.animals/
InitHello
Yes, you can pet them. Once.
UprootedGrunt
In Maine, not Alaska, but yeah. Fairly often when I was growing up. Those things are massive.
Distractus
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZDdibDVyaGR5d3loMTU3MjFjZjZxdzI2aWhwYTQ4YmdmOHV0d2hnbSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/kGXh8O9BXevzPq5qLp/200w.webp
ChadMaxxington
InfocalypseRising
Moose are the kings of "this animal is way bigger than you're picturing it"
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
albertapaws2000
Some places in Alaska like Homer they are more common than fleas.
camn333
Onebigcanuck
No but I've seen one cross the road in Canada.
DocFord
"If you ever see a deer and are like 'That's a big deer' it's an elk, if you ever see a deer and are like 'Holy fuck that's a dinosaur from a byegone age' that's a moose" -Brennan "Capitalism is the TRUE BBEG" Lee Mulligan (approx.)
Cervidaesigns
Interesting addition to that, the Sika "Deer" of Nara Japan that interact with tourists are actually related to elk and in some instances are considered small elk.
whitey211
Saw this feller on my honeymoon in Denali. Absolute unit.
twelvoclocklevel
Artoris
We went white water rafting on the Salmon river in Idaho after my brother's GF won a lottery. We had a moose visit our site one night at dinner time. Luckily he was blocked by a downed tree across his chest. Your comprehension of the world gets shuffled a bit taking in such a sight.
sammavet
An absolute unit.
BillyM00n
ShieldAnvil1
I was Hiking in Isle Royal National Park when one popped out like that raptor in jurrasic park (think clever girl). If you think it looks big in this video you are only getting a taste. I have never been more scared in my life. It made no sound and then it was just next to me. I just stood and hoped and prayed, thankfuly it just kept wandering on, not even sparing me a glance; I felt the not worth my time and energy posture radiating from him.
WillemHellfire
That is a big animal.
AGiantSlor
On his way to bite my sister
thehennessy3000
The person responsible for this comment has been sacked.
thisisnotfineffs
Well she shouldn't have carved her initials into the moose
rulerofthedingdongs
Once.
ionicseraph
Mind you, møøse bites kan be pretti nasti...
IfILikeYourJokeITellYou
Nø rælly
Randomice
Was it chasing a chicken?
ifixlasers42
Watch me pull a rabbit right out of my ass….
guitarfourtysix
Again?
ifixlasers42
I’m stoked someone got my reference.
guitarfourtysix
rezurok
sata6davidworley
That's a huge swamp donkey
FRIENDisCHUMisBAIT
I could've touched his nose before he realized I was not a cow in rut.
Lurch1911
Well that looks like the Glenn Hwy just past Eureka Valley.
circlebreaker
Swamp donkey FTW +1
noelco
I've seen them in the wild many times, but only once up close..it was at dusk and he come out of a bog...steam rising from him...looked spectatular until he spotted us. We climbed a big spruce tree to about 30 feet and were stuck there for over 40 mins...he would leave then come back snapping branches 3inches around. He was in the rut and came across us while chasing the cow.
Justboredtobehere
I've seen them up close, appearing out of the ditch or roadside brush in seconds while I'm traveling highway speed and with only a second to react to avoid hitting them. If you're lucky it happened in daylight.
I've had at least three close calls at night where I have absolutely no idea how I didn't end up with a moose in my lap. I swear one must have raised his head at the last minute and I drove under it.
ZoidbergIsGreat
What a butt puckering experience!
tentacularfleshscape
Bad day to wear your moose vagina cologne
USvette1
Today I saw sam Winchester crossing the road
bluewitch
Sam was more of a yak, with the floppy hair and all.
USvette1
But Sam's nickname was Moose, remember?
bluewitch
Yeah, but as a rebuttal, please see the following: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-yak-with-long-hair-laying-in-a-field-YkCUymSg6aQ
USvette1
😹😹😹😹
LebistusReticulatis
That majestic animal can receive satellite television
Mechwarrior719
It isn’t until he’s fully on the road that you get a sense for how truly massive these bad boys are. They can, will, and often WANT to mess you up.
A good policy is to give a wide berth to any animal that outweighs you by at least double. Even a whitetail deer can ruin your day if it feels threatened enough.
Bundalicious
I saw one on the side of the road, so I sped up in case it stepped into the road, wouldn't have mattered, my car was so low, I could have drove right underneath it!!
Feralkyn
What often happens is a car takes out the legs, and the body smashes directly into the driver/passenger compartment and immediately kills anyone inside
Schoctane
My personal policy is thus: unless im trying to eat it, i admire wild animals from afar. Ive had accidentall close encounters with elk, they're frightening enough.
furballsoffury
Dude I know was biking up here in the Northland. Car hit a deer, it recocheted rekocheted requochade, ummm bounced off the car hit the dude and he almost died. He was really messed up. Now I'm going to go look up how to spell recouchet.
WigglyBlondeNoodle
But if I can't get close enough to see the details of their eyeballs in my selfie, what am I supposed to post to social media for my *millions of followers?
*Millions = my mom and her four friends
stronomer
Post _if_ someone can recover the phone from the wreckage.
CharlesTooke
Obit
ElorYosnak
Dawg give *any* wild animal a wide berth.
People get this idea that "oh it's just a heron they're so pretty i'll walk past it" or "oh it's just a squirrel whats the big deal"
Herons have a sword on their face. Squirrels are impossible to grab, and will cut and tear anything they can find.
Just leave animals alone, and give them their space.
furballsoffury
Didn't get me started about skunks
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
It's also important to note its height. If you hit it with a car, 90% of its body mass is above the hood. It's going through the windshield and turning you into a fine paste. There is no safe way to collide with it.
Schoctane
If your car is low enough and you're going fast enough it might miss the windshield... I wouldn't like to test this hypothesis.
Mechwarrior719
I’ll bet a main battle tank would do ok.
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
Fun fact: because of laws against deploying the military on domestic soil in both the US and Canada, all military vehicles are transported by flatbed. Even vehicles that are specifically designed to be driven on roads, such as humvees, are transported by truck because they cannot be legally driven on domestic roads off designated military bases.
PoRiverValley
um, no. they convoy around plenty in Humvees and HEMMTs, etc. if it won't cause issues for civilian travel.
however, since convoys are large and slow and likely to cause traffic issues, it's discouraged. Much faster to put them on flatbeds. https://www.ustranscom.mil/dtr/part-iii/dtr_part_iii_app_f.pdf
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
Dag, yo. Thanks for the excellently sourced correction.
RIxspacexCK
damn that's a huge animal. moose looks a little tired, didn't have his morning juice
YpsilantiRomani
Well I mean he's carrying that giant rack probably I'm very laid the last few days
MCNewYorkLives
Just don't give him goose juice!
Moose juice, not goose juice, is juice for a moose.
Goose juice, not moose juice, is juice for a goose.
SilentSecretMan
That thing will murder you in .25 seconds if you get in its way.
ReallyOG
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Zeeall
It will kick you just for fun.
ThatRaccoonGuy
Not for fun. They are just blind and easily spooked. I used to see them a lot. They teach you in driver's ed not to try to honk at them, chase them, or scare them off the road. Just chill out and wait for them to leave.
ArcaneM37
Could kill you, bmostly wants to eat trees.
swephisto
Should I take it personally or does it apply to everyone?
JoeT85
So dont make fun his inability to wear hats. Got it
Jaqdakloun
And probably won't even notice you as it does
CocaineAndSelfPleasure
We ran in to one in Nederland on a river trail.
cytherians
They are huge and appear to be "lumbering," but when adrenaline kicks in, they run far faster than any human. Those antlers are worse than a Klingon Bat'leth.
Fanner50
Easiest way for him to kill you: hit him with your car.
You’ll take out his legs and 1/2 ton of meat will come through your windshield.
The reason for the bumper stickers: “brake for moose, it could save your life”
sacrosanctt
When you brake you dip the front i end of your vehicle downward. This ensures the most will come through the windshield.
Speed up for moose.
BlueSharpie4
I,too, was taught to speed up for moose in the hope that you flip it over the driver's portion of the vehicle.
azgrak1
It’s when they are in rut, August thru October, that you have to worry. I had a full grown male walk thru my campsite. I don’t think he even cared that I was there. FYI they’re bigger than you think and he walked completely silently.
spookyu
I used to work as a medic at the USAF's survival school, one of the training areas had a lot of moose (and other wildlife). One time I had to stop the doctor I worked with from WALKING UP TO ONE. He was also my OIC....I would've never lived that one down if I let the doc I reported to/my OIC get trampled to death by a moose lol. One of our medics also got stalked by a cougar once (the actual animal, in this instance at least).
cytherians
I've never seen a tame moose. I have to wonder if there are some, they're extremely rare. They are just as deadly as a polar bear.
hockey4mal8
At a snowmobile camp in Wyoming we had one come up to our porch and eat berries from our hand. Turns out the kitchen staff had been keeping her well fed.
p00p3rz1314
Mechwarrior719
Absolutely. If one is charging you within a dozen meters, it’s too late.
Jaqdakloun
...how many bananas is that?
theraininspainfallsmainlyontheplain
@UnitConversionBot
mjs2353
At least three I checked
arrbos
Or at least give you broken ribs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWicQc6yUvg
(this game is MUCH too lenient on players who screw with moose)
michaeloberg
Ran into one in the Long Dark and barely survived with broken ribs and lots of bleeding
FeloniousMonk13
Not if you offer him some cookies
truehaggerty
My kids love feeding them our apples.
alaric
Bad idea
pixelsnader
Then it becomes 0.2 seconds.
NOINITIATIVE
a møøse bit my sister once.
MostAwesomeDan
The mouse gets the cookies, the moose gets muffins
sharK11
I love this book and I was thinking that the cookie goes to the mouse for sure.
nullbr
I mean, we can't argue with the literature
choppedliveraldente
Im going to bake some muffins and go make a new freind:)
nullbr
deal, I'm friending a mouse
drakkaris12718
First degree or second degree?
clonedeeznuts
No bull?
CapCap
Bring one to Minneapolis and throw it into the ICE compound
Pphunk77
Also if it gets in your way. The scary thing about moose accidents is that they end up going through the windshield because of their height, and they’re massive. Drive carefully in moose country and obey the moose signs. It could save your life. I had to break hard once to a stop and let a mom moose and two baby meese cross.
7qd26tttv7
I've seen18-wheelers lying on their side with a giant hole in the trailer sprawled across the highway.
It was mating season.
They're also known to charge at trains, derailing them and walking it off.
daddydeezy
Why did you have to say meese?! Why?!
SometimesIFallDown
Meeseseses'th'dn't
daddydeezy
Oh god no!!!!!
thotterpop
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1N2o5N2p0MWM4MzgzZHZvMWxlcms5ZWVtbnR1dm85NGZ1a2Q4cmlyaSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/QvMlVkJ3XSSj9cOxDM/200w.webp