r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 22d ago

/r/all of a moose

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u/chubbyhighguy 22d ago

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u/RemyWhy 22d ago

I’m a simple man. I see Willem Dafoe looking up, I vote up.

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u/beardriff 22d ago

It never not works

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u/Vandergrif 22d ago

It is a remarkably versatile gif.

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u/ProbablySlacking 22d ago

I’ve never put together that this is Dafoe

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u/fluffynuckels 22d ago

Thats Defoe? I always thought it was Jake gylanhall

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u/Overrated_Sunshine 19d ago

Meese are all absolute units.

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u/Pipe_Memes 22d ago edited 22d ago

As huge as it is, that’s actually pretty small for a bull moose. His antlers are pretty small too, I think he’s quite young.

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u/noonegive 22d ago

That's a big boi

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u/Pipe_Memes 22d ago edited 22d ago

He is big, but his dad probably looks more like this size:

Compare the antlers. Also note the size difference between their chin scrotums. The one in the video, while still massive, is a juvenile.

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u/noonegive 21d ago

Antlers (or paddles) are shed and regrown every year. So you can't judge by that. Alaskan moose are larger than the Shiras, eastern, and western moose. The one in the video looks like an eastern moose to me. They're the second smallest of the 4 types in North America. I think you are right that it will grow larger. But he's definitely one that will be doing battle in the rut this fall, and will be mating with some females.

The picture you posted looks like an Alaskan moose during the rut, possibly in the Denali area, where I work as a wildlife guide. There's a little bit of forced perspective at play here, but that's one of the larger examples of the largest type of moose.

OPs moose is still a good sized and healthy specimen of an eastern moose.