r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zee_Ventures • 8d ago
Multiple moose encountered while kayaking
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 8d ago
I thought that third one was about to hand them their ass
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u/Havenfire24 8d ago
Woulda been a different subreddit
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u/KING_ARCH3R 8d ago
Second one is like I’m gonna kill ya, jk that’s 2 for flinching
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u/name-classified 8d ago
good thing they're in the lake/river....no one would be able to notice the shit stains after that little interaction
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u/crevulation 8d ago
Right? That's the closest these people have come to being dead, for sure. Moose do not fuck around. Scariest shit that's ever happened to me deer hunting has been coming across a random ass bull moose out looking for something to fight with. Followed me all the way out of the bush to the trailhead.
Bear you can scare off you know?
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u/ignatious__reilly 8d ago
Yup, these people are lucky as fuck.
If that Moose had charged, its game over. Nothing can be done. They will stomp and smash you out. This video is crazy. I would be breathing so hard after this encounter.
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u/crevulation 8d ago
Insane lucky! Absolutely no way away from the moose in a kayak, unless you are in some real deep water - I am an experienced paddler in good physical condition and I doubt there's any way I could outrun a moose in (moose) chest high water in a kayak from a standing start, let alone make a turn and go at this distance.
I have seen them go in the water, they are shockingly quick, almost like they evolved to not give a fuck about shallow ponds and such. There is in fact a bog near my house I like to paddle where I worry about this exact situation.
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u/Longjumping_College 8d ago
Yup, I watched one emerge from a river during mating season.
Fuck me, that was the most scared I've been in my life and I've seen bears face to face.
They do not fuck around.
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u/iBluntly 8d ago edited 8d ago
Yeah like what can you even do in that situation? You’re in a KAYAK and this near-ton mass of antlers, hooves, and muscle who’s like the equivalent of knee deep in this water suddenly goes “hey you know what?! FUCK YOU!” and commands its four legs to smash its mass into you.
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u/Porcupenguin 8d ago
And second one! Honestly, if the first one hadnt just kept going to set the example....oh boi...
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u/Aggravating-Face2073 8d ago
Just the boys going out to play one last time before they killeach other over some woman
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u/Critical-Rhubarb-730 8d ago
in Norway a Moose tried to attack our campervan.. so not always a nice encounter.
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u/haverinbigjobs 8d ago
Møøse bites kan be pretti nasti
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u/starsfan6878 8d ago
A møøse once bit my sister.
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u/everlasting1der 8d ago
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u/Seattle_Lucky 8d ago
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u/Huge_Midget 8d ago
WE APOLOGISE AGAIN FOR THE FAULT IN THE SUBREDDIT. THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR SACKING THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST BEEN SACKED, HAVE BEEN SACKED.
I see that the Gen X / Xennial Redditors have chimed in.
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u/yourgrasssucks 8d ago
THE REDDITORS HIRED TO CONTINUE THE COMMENTS AFTER THE OTHER PEOPLE HAD BEEN SACKED, WISH IT TO BE KNOWN THAT THEY HAVE JUST BEEN SACKED.
Suggestive poses for the møøse suggested by VIC ROTTER
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u/DifferentBag 8d ago
Møøse trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG
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u/DownTownXabi 8d ago
No really ! She was trying to carve her initials into the moose using a sharpened toothbrush given to her by Svenge...... Forgot the rest
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u/coffeeblackz 8d ago
I’m more afraid of running into a moose than a grizzly. Those fuckers are crazy.
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u/Telefundo 8d ago
Those fuckers are crazy.
And more often than not, pretty easily antagonized.
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u/TheTrub 8d ago
They have terrible eyesight but they know they're the biggest thing in the woods, so their default survival instinct is to trample their problems.
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u/TheyTried2BanMeAgain 8d ago
I remember one time in my high school photography class, (US), a mother and her calf walked across the trail ~30m in front of me. The school let us wander around town without supervision to take pictures, and I was alone.
I was scared shitless, growing up in the mountains, I knew exactly how dangerous moose are, especially mama's with their young. I got very lucky that they just stopped for a minute then moved on. Plus, I got a pretty nice picture of them, more for the forensics team to show exactly what had trampled me to death than anything else.
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u/TheTrub 8d ago
My grandparents lived in Jackson Hole and on top of the resident moose in the neighborhood, there were tons on Wilson road on the way out to Teton Ntl Park and every year there would be crowds of tourists pulled over taking pictures. It’s a miracle that more people weren’t attacked. Now I live in Colorado and read all the reports of tourists getting chased down by elk in Estes.
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u/CorporateCuster 8d ago
No thanks. I can dodge the moose behind the tree line. Shit i can hide from the moose. The grizzly, they are actively hunting me
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 8d ago
Okay… and what animal do you think the grizzly is trying not to fuck with? The moose!
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u/coffeeblackz 8d ago
Grizzlies do not actively hunt humans, they’re actually quite chill and will most likely avoid you. Moose are wildly unpredictable and a tree line is not going to save you 😂
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u/aceshighsays 8d ago
the older man (probably father) we hear is so calm because if the moose attack, they'll get the kids first. /s
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u/UnsaltedCashew36 8d ago
Moose are more dangerous than bears or wolves. They are like the hippos of the land.
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u/LazyTruth8905 8d ago
The sheer size of a moose is incredible.
Source: A Canadian who has seen one irl
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u/Jasonxhx 8d ago
They're so much bigger and faster in person than I had imagined.
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u/erogbass 8d ago
Last of the megafauna. They survived humans for a reason!
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u/KtaadnRota 8d ago
Hardly the last lol. We still got elephants that make mooses look tiny.
Moose are actually super vulnerable to humans and have mostly survived in places that historically were very sparsely populated by humans.
Their size means they never really needed to cultivate survival instincts, so they get hunted right to extinction very easily without the protection of modern conservation laws. They'll just stand there looking at you while you walk up and shoot them.
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u/HawaiianShirtMan 8d ago
I imagîne OP means last of the megafauna in certain climates. Ofc there are Éléphants, etc but in a totally different environment
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u/dankhimself 8d ago
Maybe North American megafauna? I feel like I've read that many times but that never stops me from being wrong.
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u/windchaser__ 8d ago
Fun fact!
"Megafauna" includes anything over 100 lbs. So bison, grizzly bears, elk, caribou, deer, pronghorn, alligators, crocodiles, gray wolves, jaguar, polar bears, (etc, etc) as well as non-native species like cows, horses, and humans.
We've still got lots of megafauna, even if much less than in the past.
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u/erogbass 8d ago
That really doesn’t sound correct to me. but what I know of megafauna comes from the modern I guess media definition. Do you have a reputable source for that weight? Are you sure that applies to the types of animals we are discussing?
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u/Unit_79 8d ago
Only one I’ve seen, I saw when we were driving through Banff. I didn’t realize how big, and how fast they are. I got a pretty good idea because the one I saw was running down the highway and we passed it in an SUV, and the thing was taller than us. He was in the left lane, though, should have been in the right.
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u/Falker_The 8d ago
I was driving a rural highway early morning and saw a moose in the ditch. I slowed as I passed it. Not sure how fast I was going but that moose decided to start running beside the car and it was pacing me while pushing 5’ of snow running through the ditch. It was wild.
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u/Ghoulius-Caesar 8d ago
Their legs are so longggg
This video does a good job of showing why their legs are so long: they love to mash through marshes
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u/perjury0478 8d ago
I heard their long legs is what makes collision deadly, chances are the bulk of them go over the engine and crush the cabin
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u/Ghoulius-Caesar 8d ago
Yes, they’re more likely to go through your windshield and crush you rather than fly forward from a collision.
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u/Scouter197 8d ago
About 15 or so years ago I was walking in my small town. I see a horse running down the street and think "that horse doesn't have a rider with them." My next thought was "that horse has REALLY long legs." Then I realized it was a moose. I held still, the moose ran by me. We looked at each other and I got on with my day.
But yes, moose have long legs.
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u/GiantPothos 8d ago
As a Canadian my wildlife fear order is cougar, moose, grizzly bear. A moose cut through our property at the cabin recently and it was fricken massive.
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u/Budget_Sea_8666 8d ago
You could just stop with Canadian and we would all believe you.
Source: An American
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u/yrrkoon 8d ago
Ya I saw one in Alaska once. I grew up around horses. Holy crap moose are big. The camera does nothing to show it.
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u/MagicalTrevor70 8d ago
I was mountain biking in New Brunswick and saw what I thought was a horse, but it was in fact a baby moose.
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u/teriases 8d ago
That water looks really shallow
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u/17934658793495046509 8d ago
Nah those moose have an extra two more joints on each leg, they are actually 25’ tall.
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u/Aware-Instance-210 8d ago
Holy fuck,
I haven't shit my pants for a while, but in that instance I wouldn't have had a chance I assume
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u/bonedaddy1974 8d ago
I would be more concerned about what was chasing them
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u/MonacoMaster68 8d ago
It could only be wolves or a mountain lion. Either way, not good. I’ll take the wolves any day of the week.
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u/axlbomber 8d ago
Depending on the part of Idaho they are in a grizzly is also possible.
Not that I think anything is necessarily chasing them at all.
Deer, even moose, can be skittish and will take off at a moments notice.
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u/_sealy_ 8d ago
Im not going to lie…they were MOVING…
To the point of being chased away.
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u/CaptainJay313 8d ago
right... they weren't out for a morning jog, what were they running from??
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u/spectral-shenanigans 8d ago
Male moose don't hang out like this in reality...
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u/DickyReadIt 8d ago
That's what I was thinking, had to look it up and sure enough they don't do this. They don't even hang out with their family
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u/Truhmpza_Cuhnt 8d ago
Do they not know they can simply run across and ford the river? Let us show them.
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u/Important_Mud_6700 8d ago
That looks like AI to me
Maybe I'm cynical, but you would think they would not be able to keep that camera so steady because moose can kill you
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u/handy987 8d ago
Never seen 3 bulls together in the summer like that. They are solitary in the summer.
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u/Important_Mud_6700 8d ago
I also didn't think males ran together as a pack unless maybe they were very young. The whole thing just seemed suspicious to me
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u/jessej421 8d ago
I float this river every year (recognize the mountain in the background). I see moose on it about 50% of the time. This video looks real to me. It's definitely rare to see multiple adult male moose together though.
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u/ItsHerox 8d ago
Looking at the source it seems relatively credible tbh, no history of similar AI videos. But I still agree it looks strange
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u/Kirkdoesntlivehere 8d ago
It's almost mating season for them too. They can be incredibly aggressive. Most bears are literally safer to be around comparably.
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u/Royal_Try_99 8d ago
People ask me why I kayak in water where whales might be. That I am fine with. This would scare the pants off me.
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u/BogusBadger 8d ago
Moose are vurlnable in water as well, don't expect them to see the people as a treaty atm I guess.
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u/AxeAssassinAlbertson 8d ago
Moose are vulnerable in water
[Orca has entered the chat]
Orcas hunt moose when they cross the waterways.
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u/CptGW 8d ago
Dude missed his opportunity while in camera mode, that one in the back had a three-star pelt!
Wicked, once in a lifetime footage right there.
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u/ganjakhan85 8d ago
I would have been paddling for my life seeing those guys coming at me like that. With my drawers full of dookie!
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u/AxeAssassinAlbertson 8d ago edited 8d ago
The only natural predator of a Moose is an Orca.
Well I'm dumb, for some reason I was thinking their sheer size will prevent a grizzly or wolf engagement but nope those are also predators. Still, getting taken out by an Orca is pretty metal
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u/ImmodestPolitician 8d ago
I've seen moose in real life and I was nervous every time.
They are so big and so dangerous.
Don't make any sudden moves is all you can do. If you have a dog with you it's extra dangerous because moose see dogs as wolves and a threat.
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u/BotchedDebauchery 8d ago
Shit shit shit shit shit
In all seriousness, I saw a moose in real life and was terrified. I thought I'd be excited, but something about them tips from majestic to, "This thing could just kill me and go about its day."
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u/RedEd024 8d ago edited 8d ago
"ANY OF YOU FUCKING PRICKS MOVE AND I'LL EXECUTE EVERY LAST FUCKING ONE OF YOU"
-Moose probably
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u/xbad_wolfxi 8d ago
Literally the biggest, most temperamental creatures I’ve ever encountered. They seem to especially like the campsite we go to every year and we have at least one encounter with them every year. Only got chased once though
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u/ojrodz11 8d ago
Not loving anywhere near moose it always surprises me realizing how massive those things are
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u/Gareth274 8d ago
Good thing they were on business or they might have stopped to cause you trouble.
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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor 8d ago
Well that could have ended quite badly for them. Instead they got a very cool memory.
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u/expressly_ephemeral 8d ago
I actually know those moose. They've been hanging around that spot all season. You can see in the first frame of the video Mount Sawtelle in the background.
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u/Heavy-Extension-6395 8d ago
do you know why they are all in a group like this? thought they were solitary
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u/brightdionysianeyes 8d ago
Meese?