Videos & pics can never convey First-Hand Mass Observation. Here is one first-hand comment in that thread: Back in '87 I was walking the back 40 of my dad's place outside of Fairbanks on a skid trail. Mind you I am a big boy and at 12 I was 6'+. I hear this scuffle and look over about 10' away is a mess of fugly calf, I stopped cold. Something warm and fuzzy touches my neck sending instant ice water down my spine turning my guts to water. Then a snort and two giant streams of moose snot shoot down each side of my face. Slowly and calmly inched sideways, turned around and there stood a giant. Fugly ran up to her and they melted into the woods through the thickest scrub I have ever seen not making a damned sound. That literally scared the $hit out of me, thankfully it was solid.
THAT is an impressive animal. If I were the guy taking the video, I'd be thinking this might be a mistake.
@Don Alaska Did you hear of the woman and a "juvenile male" in Wales who were killed by a polar bear on Tuesday? Apparently it came into town, chased some people, and caught these two. It was shot & killed by a local, but not before it was too late. Link
Yep I heard about that. It does happen once in a while. That is why many are armed all the time, especially in the bush. We also had a train hit an avalanche yesterday. It didn't hit the train, but was in front of the freight train and the train couldn't stop before it hit it. No one of the crew were seriously injured, but it knocked two of the three locomotives off the track.
Moose are pretty cool characters and are often seen wandering the streets in Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho. (@Yvonne Smith’s old stomping grounds) They just plod along going wherever they want to go, grazing on whatever they think might be a nice morsel seemingly oblivious to anything else going on around them. The one’s I have seen have this very aloof all powerful attitude like they really don’t care about a car or two going down the street or people who might be watching from a safe distance. It seems that they know that they’re the big kid on the block and no one is going to mess with them including those who perchance have a moose tag in their glove compartment and a rifle in the rack of their pickup truck.
Cow moose with young in the spring and early summer and bulls in the fall are exceptions. They occasionally kill people who are not paying attention.