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The moose is the largest deer on the planet, and live in North America and some parts of Europe. The males have huge antlers that are great for fighting, and a great way to see off the wolves and bears that see them as food. Their antlers can grow up to an astounding 6 feet wide, and weigh a whopping 90lbs! Don’t mess with a moose! Unlike other members of the deer family, they lead a very solitary existence, and only really come together during the mating season. This is where their antlers really come into their own, as they males battle it out for the females affections in a jousting spectacular! They can live up to 25 years in the wild, and are surprisingly good swimmers. Unfortunately they have pretty poor eye sight, and when they get angry the hairs on their back stand up like a cat! A male moose is surprisingly called a bull, whilst the female is called a cow. Don’t try and milk one though as you may get a hove in the chops for your trouble.

Did you know?

Moose are the largest living members of the deer family. They are a great symbol of unspoilt wilderness and in particular of the North American back country, where today almost 1 million roam .
They can weigh up to 750kg, with antlers that can reach a span of over 2 metres.
Exploited by man for thousands of years, they once provided food, clothing, and tools to many early societies.
In some places moose were hunted to extinction, in others reduced to remnant populations, but they have managed to rebound with time.
Their high reproductive rates and ability to disperse over wide areas, combined with their capacity to thrive on natural disturbance such as floods and fire have helped moose populations to persist and grow in places that man and other predators cannot. Today moose are found in North America, Russia, Asia and Europe. Moose came close to extinction in some parts of their range, but successful reintroduction programmes that began in the early twentieth century have restored the moose populations in the wild.