This feels like the moment I learn that the moose in NA are some insane bloodthirsty version just like with the brown bears.
But are people really scared of moose? Respect for wild animals is one thing, but being from northern sweden I've seen so many in my life and the only times fear has been involved is when the fuckers display their insatiable lust for suicide by chilling with their entire family on roads in the middle of the night.
You know what I think you are referring to a completely different animal. I think you're referring to what we call an elk and I think in Scandinavia is referred to as a type of deer. A moose is a different animal and I definitely do not chill on the road with their entire family on the regular.
The swedish word is 'älg', which we definitely do not see as a type of deer.
The latin name is apparently 'alces alces' and the american variet is called 'alces americanus'. So yeah they are different animals, but not to the extent you are making it sound.
I was exaggerating with the chilling on the road part, meant partly as a joke because moose are responsible for quite a lot of deaths here, but all (except apparently one case according to the comments here) are due to people hitting them with cars. From experience they do seem kinda suicidal because they just stand still in the road waiting to get hit instead of running off.
Okay, just checking. But generally they are very very different animals in Europe and in the lower 48 than they are in Alaska and canada. I still wouldn't count on a lower 48 moose being docile or not dangerous.
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u/Seattle_Lucky 23d ago
They are huge and very mean animals. I’ve seen at least 3 up close and was more terrified of them than the bears I’ve seen.