800 Pound House Pests

Cow moose, with and without calves, are more common, but I snapped this shot of a three year old bull because he had apparently had a recent adventure with an automobile. If you look closely at the back of his left rear leg, you'll see a scrape and a series of bruises, likely from a car. He was moving fine, so I don't think the injury was serious. Often, auto-moose collisions are fatal to the moose and cause serious injury to folks in the car.

Pretty good home exercise gym too, when one runs you for a few laps around your car.

Jim, I think you're right about this guy being fairly young. As for encounters with vehicles up there, I too recall a very close call on a back road near Elmendorf with one of these guys. Fortunately I was taking my time and all was good.
However, I did see a elk about two years ago not fairing as well near Big Pine in the sierras. The leg break was no doubt going to lead to death one way or another.

Hi Jim, I like the picture. Over here in the Northeast, the New Hampshire roads (especially in the White Mtns) are always full of signs warning about moose collisions; they even tell you how many such collisions occur annually. Last fall my son and I were on the side of a NH road shooting the famous birches of Shelburne near Gorham. Scads of people stopped their cars and got out with their cameras. Someone asked, Where's the moose? They were so disapointed to find we were just shooting a bunch of trees....

Thats one sad Moose---"Why the long face"?
JG

Nice shot. Glad he's relatively okay. Hope the same for the people involved. I've only been to Alaska once (unforgetable!!) but well remember all the moose encounters. A huge bull managed to stop a train by standing on the tracks. Another one at a different location had traffic stopped. Like the bison we encountered in Yellowstone this Spring-- hey, they control the road! I felt well put in my place where I belong.