Moose

The moose are part of the deer family, and is the largest and tallest animal in the North America. The females weigh up to 800 to 1,300 pounds, and males weigh 1,200 to 1,600 pounds,and can run up to 35mph(that’s fast didn’t know that).Moose are most active at dawn and duck, because they do not have very good eyesight. But they do have very good hearing and sense of smell. They have long, thick, light brown to dark brown hair; this is what keeps the moose warm in the weather time. Its front legs are longer than its rear legs. Why because the helps them jump over fallen trees and other thing that may be in the way. The male moose has huge wide antlers that will stretch anywhere from 4 to 5 feet across. The antlers start to grow in the early summer. When the antlers begin to grow, they are covered with a soft fuzzy skin called velvet. “The velvet has blood vessels in it that deliver nutrients that help the antlers grow. By late summer when the antlers reach full size, the blood supply dries up and the velvet starts to drop off.” The moose live in areas where there is snow in the winter also near lakes, bogs, swamps, streams and ponds. In warmer months such as the summer time they eat the leaves, twigs and buds of trees and shrubs. In the winter the moose eat woody plants such as again the twigs and bark of willow, birch, aspen and dogwood trees. The female gives birth in the spring or summer time and usually has one baby. Moose calves can stand up in a day and swim in a couple of weeks. They are weaned after about six months and stay with the mother until the next calve is born. The mothers are extremely protective of their calves and will charge at anything even people if they get too close.
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The Nature of Alaska