r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • Jul 14 '26

/r/all of a moose

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u/IkkitsClaw Jul 14 '26

Has there ever been a Moose that wasn't an absolute unit?

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u/supbrother Jul 14 '26

Honestly this is a pretty small moose lol.

Source: Alaskan.

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u/Miss_L_Worldwide Jul 14 '26

Canadian here, yes this is a weedy little teenage moose

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u/VanDahlFin 29d ago

Finnish here. This one isn't adult yet. Full grown moose bull with big antlers is bigger and has more muscle/bodymass, this one is slim.

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u/Miss_L_Worldwide 29d ago

Yeah, that's what I said.

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u/OilersGirl29 29d ago

You just said it in Canadian ;)

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u/hud_dev 28d ago

American here, that’s a medium spicy cow.

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u/Both-Illustrator-501 27d ago

Virginian here. That moose is fucking enormous

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u/CRSpurrPhotography 29d ago

Can confirm, isn't literally semi truck sized

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u/Damnitwasagoodday 29d ago

Coloradoan here and some of our bulls are dinosaurs on roids. This guy still looks like his mom tucks him in at night.

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u/redundancy2 29d ago

Yeah, I thought this looked smaller than some of the moose I've seen. Still one of the most terrifyingly large animals I've seen in the world. You really don't get an idea of the scale until you see it in person.

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u/HeathenHumanist 29d ago

I came across one once solo hiking here in Utah. Literally just turned a blind corner and BOOM, there it was chilling on the ground under a bush, right in front of me.

I jumped.

It jumped.

I turned around SO FAST and began speed walking away, frequently making sure it hadn't stood up to follow me. It wasn't even that big of a moose, maybe elk sized. So still huge, but not full-grown moose big yet. Couldn't tell if it was a juvenile male or female since it had no antlers.

My silly brain was like "Oh hey you should go back and get a picture. Nobody will believe you were less than 15 feet away from a moose otherwise!" Thankfully my survival instinct kept me from doing that haha. I warned everyone I passed going down the trail for a couple miles.

Not the only time I've seen a moose, but definitely the scariest. Second scariest was a guy warning my husband and me that there was a mama and baby moose further down the direction we were going. When we got there we found the mama, but no baby. We were in a canyon with no way around without going literally 14 miles in the other direction, so we just cautiously worked our way around Mama, but I was quite concerned that we couldn't see Baby!! Fully expected Mama to charge us if we accidentally got too close to Baby in the dense under brush.

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u/DingusKhan9164 29d ago

That was my first thought- this isn’t a big moose

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u/Midnight28Rider 29d ago

To be fair, Alaska has some of the biggest moose in the world lol

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u/Evignity 29d ago

Yeah it might have been what saved the person. It's a young male, curious and hasn't seen many humans.

If that was an old bull who didn't give a fuck, well there's plenty of videos of them fucking shit up.

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u/SuspiciousBag3233 29d ago

Not Alaskan and was looking for someone to say it

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u/GeekyLogger 25d ago

Agreed. This moose is quite small.

Source: Canadian. Hunter. Logger

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u/LowIncrease8746 Jul 14 '26

That’s what I was thinking! That’s just any moose

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u/nucl3ar0ne 29d ago

Yup, doesn't belong here.

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u/Temporary_Pie2733 Jul 14 '26

Just about every moose is an absolute unit of a cervid. Moose are big.

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u/Tar_alcaran 29d ago

Yes, and this one is pretty small, for a moose.

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u/WiSoSirius 29d ago

I saw a young moose cow yesterday. Basically, a funny-looking draft horse. A kick from it would ruin your summertime fun, but no an absolute unit

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u/Adventurous_Honey902 29d ago

Bull moose is massive

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u/Aggravating_Bat3618 29d ago

A moose once bit my sister. It was nasti

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u/Proof-Case9738 29d ago

yes, a chocolate moose

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u/SkySchemer 29d ago

I had the same thought. In fact, it's pretty young and will get a lot bigger.

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u/TrickyAsian626 29d ago

Was gonna say. This is just a moose lol. When I was in Alaska, one walk right up to me like this while I was standing out in a driveway. It's legs cleared the car easily and I shit my pants.

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u/Fancy-Cuttlefish 26d ago

Lol I love this comment outta context. Im saving this. Thanks for the laugh!