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This horse-sized animal is the largest member of the deer family with long, dark
brown hair, high, humped shoulders and long legs. A pendant of hair-covered
skin sometimes reaching 2 feet hangs under the throat. Each April the male
moose or bull grows a set of antlers reaching 120-150 cm which he loses in the
winter after rutting season.
The rut lasts from early September to late October and 8 months later 1-2 calves
are born. Moose are unpredictable and sometimes dangerous; although they generally
avoid human contact, cows with calves and rutting bulls have been known to
charge people, cars, horses, and locomotives.
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