| 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 moose or bull grows a set of antlers reaching 120-150 cm, which he loses in the winter after the rutting season. The moose occurs in the spruce forests, swamps, aspen and willow thickets. It is built to live in the rough country and is well adapted to a cold climate. It can be found throughout most of the northern states including Colorado. 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 are known to charge people, cars, horses and locomotives. |
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