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NeckSpike @neckspike7/6/2023, 12:10 AM

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Shel @shel7/5/2023, 11:18 PM

Anonymous User asked:

whats your favourite fact about moose

In Massachusetts all driver's ed classes legally have to make you watch a MassDOT educational video about the danger of moose. They include scary music and a jump scare. If you crash your car into a moose you will die and the moose won't even be injured. How is this so? If you're not from the north, you might wonder that. Imagine how big you think a moose is. You are wrong. The moose is bigger than that. I've seen them. They are like actual fuckin forest gods from Princess Mononoke and they are far more powerful than you. MassDOT is correct to educate teenagers on this.

NeckSpike @neckspike7/6/2023, 12:10 AM

Moose are legit ice age megafauna. One of their natural predators is Orcas. Because they dive in the sea and eat seaweed. They can hold their breath for like 30 minutes to do this.

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squircular reasoning @spiders7/5/2023, 11:22 PM

moose are basically remnant pleistocene megafauna honestly, and im fucking here for it as a pleistocene enjoyer

Tamber @tamber7/5/2023, 11:23 PM

Goddamn megafauna. I've seen a video of a moose chasing a bear around and around and around, and that was enough for me.

I ain't gonna fuck with no moose.

Chamomile🐑@chamomile7/5/2023, 11:26 PM

My understanding is that it is less accurate to say that you crash into a moose and more that you crash into its legs and then 1,000 pounds of moose falls on top of you.

Shel @shel7/5/2023, 11:44 PM

This implies the moose would fall

Claire M von SecondLife @clairem-sl7/6/2023, 2:44 AM

Actually the moose thinks there's an earthquake and immediately sits.

snow @flurry7/5/2023, 11:27 PM

when I was a kid in rural New England, a moose decided to run alongside my parents' car while we were going at least 60mph. That was the day I learned true fear

Shel @shel7/5/2023, 11:44 PM

REAL. I BELIEVE THIS

~@modulusshift7/5/2023, 11:27 PM

The moose is our hemisphere’s elephant equivalent. And T. rex only weighed about as much as an elephant.

Shel @shel7/5/2023, 11:43 PM

I believe this omfg

Huldra @huldratigress7/5/2023, 11:46 PM

Moose are cool as hell, I love them. Huge monsters but they just have these adorable droopy faces.

@nottoph7/6/2023, 6:03 AM

in places without moose i think theres this assumption that a moose is pretty much just a horse with antlers, size-wise

this is

not correct

Vx. Sans Sarif @sans-sarif7/7/2023, 6:15 AM

one day our dad was jogging in new hampshire (he ran two boston marathons, so running was just a thing he did even when we went away for a holiday) and by sheer accident ended up being trailed by a moose on a tiny dirt road. he was convinced, for at least 300-400 yards, from the shadow on his back, that he was being trailed by a man on horseback. he looked back.

it was in fact a moose. he is very lucky to be alive.

Cocoa @CocoaNoir7/7/2023, 6:26 AM

When I was young, a moose walked up our road in a small town. I could hear its footsteps, and I was indoors. It was unreal to see it just mosey on by our house.

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