# I want to see a wild moose! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 30, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393 "2014-07-30T03:23:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/81 "2014-08-17T05:31:53Z")
The Lake Superior Zoo at the south end of Duluth has lions. (Just be sure to leave before they close the zoo at the end of the day, or you’ll get a really odd look from a security guy when you walk out an emergency exit Just sayin . . . .) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/82 "2014-08-22T18:59:52Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Moose have a reason to be cranky nearly year round. Bulls are in rut in the fall, cows are calving in the spring, and both are starving in the winter. They’re mean-tempered and will charge, and will stomp you to death if pissed off enough. It’s best to give them a wide berth. Good advice. Here’s _Scouting_ magazine on best practices around aggressive møøse: [How to survive an encounter with an aggressive moose](http://scoutingmagazine.org/2014/08/survive-encounter-aggressive-moose/) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/83 "2014-08-22T19:11:04Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > The Kenai Penninsula, AK, especially a little south of Girdwood and around Kenai/Soldatna. No kidding, they like to walk around town nibbling on the grass of peoples lawns. [Here is one in my back yard](http://web.acsalaska.net/~fmurtley/kikmikmoose2.jpg) when I still lived there. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/84 "2014-09-22T11:43:48Z")
[I wonder if the Newfoundland moose detection system is up and running again?](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/moose-detection-system-out-of-order-1.1363931) ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/85 "2014-09-22T15:04:41Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [I wonder if the Newfoundland moose detection system is up and running again?](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/moose-detection-system-out-of-order-1.1363931) I wish there was a functional moose-detection system there. From the story: > [@](#): > > The island of Newfoundland has the highest concentration of moose in the world, and collisions often leave people dead, or with life-altering injuries. Driving the TCH at night is terrifying. Also the Northern Peninsula. On occasion I have to drive from St. John’s to a town on the Northern Pen, and I hate, _hate_ having to do any part of it after dark. Especially the stretch through Terra Nova. ---
**Author:** ![MrsTime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@MrsTime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsTime)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/86 "2014-09-22T15:23:10Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > That can be bad, but I’m more concerned about male moose during rut (Oct/Nov). They’ll charge anything they think is a threat, and during rut, everything is a threat. And do not come between a mama moose and her baby. That could get you stomped to death. Moose aren’t as tame as they look. We were driving along a mountain road one day and came across a mama and her older calf. She sent the calf into the bush along the side of the road while she continued to trot along in the middle of the road in front of us. We very slowly followed, after a couple of minutes she turned and charged at us. We were in a good sized company truck but she didn’t care, so then we were backing up a lot faster than we had been doing as were were going up the mountain. So then imagine we were on foot! ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/87 "2015-07-18T19:08:40Z")
I’m reviving this thread to say: moosion accomplished! **MaxTheVool** and I had an amazing trip to Isle Royale, and saw three moose does (cows?). No babies or bulls, worse luck, but a good excuse to come back! Isle Royale was amazing and gorgeous and we loved it. Unreservedly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/88 "2015-07-18T23:52:15Z")
Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/89 "2015-07-18T23:58:54Z")
Northern BC and Yukon Territory, along the Alcan Highway. You get the additional bonuses of caribou, bison and bear. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/90 "2015-07-19T03:31:47Z")
Yay! So glad for you. Beautiful locale in which to spot them too. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/91 "2015-07-19T04:16:14Z")
Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/92 "2015-07-19T13:16:58Z")
Glad to hear! I had a pretty close encounter this year. I was backyard camping at my in-laws two weeks ago. They live about 20 minutes from town on the shore of a little lake. I had heard some strange sounds in the middle of the night but didn’t think too much of it. When I woke up I found moose prints not more than 5ft away from the tent. I guess we had had a visitor in the night. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/93 "2015-07-19T16:01:29Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > **MaxTheVool** and I had an amazing trip to Isle Royale, and saw three moose does (cows?). No babies or bulls, worse luck, but a good excuse to come back! Yes, female moose are cows, their babies are calves, and the male are bulls. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393/94 "2015-07-20T13:15:01Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > I’m reviving this thread to say: moosion accomplished! **MaxTheVool** and I had an amazing trip to Isle Royale, and saw three moose does (cows?). No babies or bulls, worse luck, but a good excuse to come back! > > Isle Royale was amazing and gorgeous and we loved it. Unreservedly recommended. Yay!! The one time we saw moose on the hoof was during a trip to Grand Teton, 30 years ago. On a hike we saw a female moose across a lake (no calf in sight, though that doesn’t mean there wasn’t one somewhere). Then a day or two later, a bull moose walked right through our campsite, no more than 30 feet away - we did not try to get close. I’ve driven I-95 through southern Maine 4 times in the past year, and there are moose crossing signs every couple of miles. I have yet to see one. I think that’s false advertising and I should sue someone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-see-a-wild-moose/694393.md?page=4)