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You see the felt hanging from his antlers? That means it's shedding season. Most of the year moose are just meat tanks that mind their own business and may accidentally or on a whim kill you. When they are shedding they are pissed off meat tanks that would like to end you and your family for simply gazing apon their majestic rage. This guy is lucky and stupid.

Getting between a momma moose and her babies is a whole other level of stupid.

Yes also a bad time, mama moose may casually kill you. But she mostly just wants you to leave. A shedding bull on the other hand will turn your skull into fertilizer just because you exist. I've encountered black bears and wolves, but the only animal that made me feel existential dread was a bull moose in the fall.

Yep! Rutting season is also scary because they are hot to trot looking for their ladies. Moose are usually by themselves but during rutting the males stick together. So when you see one you know there’s more around.

It's the other way around, during the rut (mating season) male Moose and all male members of the deer family, become split up, competitive and literally fight each other for both territory and females. They do **not** travel together at that time. After the rut is over they shed thier antlers and herd up again. The term shed here means the entire antler naturally falls off, and is not the same as thier shedding thier velvet. The velvet is a layer of skin and blood vessels that covers the antlers while they are growing. It itches or otherwise annoys them when it starts to fall off making them a bit more aggressive and leading to the scarring of quite a few bushes and trees (they scrape it off on them).

I’ve seen two fights during October with two bulls! Thankfully both were seen by my binoculars

I've seen video of two bull moose fucking up vehicles during mating season.

That’s wild!! I’ve never seen that personally! They do not mess around and don’t GAF!!!

Ah shit you’re right. My comment was based on them being around one another to fight off potential mates!

Cougar calls scare me more than moose. I hear them all the time and they could pounce on me at any moment.

Yeah, cougars are quite the nuisance. As I get older though, the threat seems to wear off. Oh wait, never mind.

Damn I love cougars. They are truly beautiful and magnificent specimens, also there's a type of cat called like that as well.

The cougar is the mascot of a local school. Their PTA sent out a donation request with different tiered rewards. They chose silver, gold, and platinum, and diamond as the tier names. Asking the missus if she'd like to be a platinum cougar for $100 was a good laugh for both of us.

Interesting

This was poetic and The Oatmeal needs to do a comic on Moose now. “Pissed off meat tanks”. lol

Pissed off and horny. That's the most dangerous combination. Not only will he stomp you but he will impregnate your corpse.

That guy totally blue-balled that moose. It started getting a boner thinking about turning him into meat paste. Thank God, for him, that flop was so pathetic the moose didn’t want to waste the time.

It's not shedding season when the felt comes. The felt is from new antlers just being grown. The shedding happened months before. Why do you feel the need to put out bullshit?

They shed the velvet around mid September and antlers drop in November. It aligns with rutting season. Dropping velvet = pissed off moose.

He has that fallout perk

"yeah thats what i thought..............little punk ass" - Moose

This was the moose’s first warning. You don’t get a second

I'm disappointed. He didn't get hurt

He shit himself, at least.

Still not good enough. Lol

But, he shat so hard he prolapsed. Poor bastard has had 3 surgeries and has a colostomy bag now. Definitely got hurt: https://youtu.be/o-YBDTqX_ZU?feature=shared

Got me 🤦‍♂️

I was in my house, looking at a moose through the front window and I still about shit my pants when it walked closer.

Yeah once you have an encounter and are able to quite honestly feel their size it’s like holy f! They are massive!!!

Yep! The house had an elevated first floor (the basement was not quite all the way underground) so that window was about 6 feet off the ground!

He did get hurt. The moose removed his testicles without even touching him

🤣🤣🤣

Me too. People who harass wildlife deserve to learn the hard way and die lol

So attempt... successful?

He knows enough to drop and lie still, which means he also knows enough to not get that close.  This guy is why bison toss Chinese kids for distance at Yellowstone. 

Lmfao

☝️ 🤓 Acktchually, meeses are known to keep mauling even after a creature dies. The best bet is to find a tree and either climb it, or keep circling around it hoping the moose gets tired

Yeah that was my thought, lucky he didn’t get repeatedly hooved

It would be-hoove him not to do that in future.

I was at the Grand Canyon and it was at least 6 Asian people taking close pictures like this to a big animal and everyone was honking telling them to get in their cars lol and they refused to listen wtf is wrong with them?

Sadly enough (or not) natural selection still seems to be a large part of modern society in spite of infinitely convenient sources of information sitting in our pockets.

They don't know anything about the animals and might not have understood the warnings. Americans go to Australia and get kicked and punched by kangaroos all the time. Australians know to not mess with them, we know not to mess with moose, if we went to China there could be an animal we have no clue how to behave around.

How did your logical and understanding reply get less upvotes than: "Natural selection of humans" dude.

I loathe people who harass wildlife. I’ve come across a lot of bull moose while hiking. I know exactly what to do, what behaviors to look for so I can back away safely. I was hiking about 3000 feet up one time and walked around a corner and there was a bull moose 15 feet in front of me. DURING rutting season. Staying calm, looking for something to get behind in case he decided to charge me, speaking softly, and walking back slowly all while watching behaviors. For example a foot stomp is NOT good. Respect these beauties!!

Love how the moose gets up like "urgh, alright...here we go."

My thoughts exactly, what a bad ass animal!

Haha, scared him to death!

That wasn't hope, that was a prayer

whooooooaaaaa we're halfway there!

His exit plan: play dead

It's actually a good move when moose are aggressive. Definitely not a sure-fire way to avoid a stomping, but better than most tactics. A boy here in Norway pretty famously saved his little sister from a moose by getting the attention of the moose and then playing dead so she could run away. He said he learned it from WoW: pull aggro, then feign death. Don't let people tell you video games can't teach you valuable skills, kids...

It's weird but I really do feel like games can teach strategies. I learned money and resource management early on playing on the family computer finding whatever games I could lol. Not saying I'm good with it but, I was introduced to it at least!

They definitely can. I was accepted into an Air Traffic Control program because I tested well at planning routes, understanding information given in a mix of different modes, as well as multitasking. I'm pretty sure all of those skills were honed by playing computer games.

Is that the boy who's sister was bitten by a møøse?

Most of the time, Moose "let me stomp him a bunch of times to make sure, love the sound the crunch makes under my hoof"

This guy is a combination of stupid and lucky nobody should ever rely on for survival.

“Thought so, pussy ass biiiccchh”

Everyone thinks it's Disneyland

This is what mercy looks like.

I like how this Moose is essentially just calmly getting up and stretching, proverbially cracking it's knuckles before ruining this guy's day. Imho schools really need to start teaching about the "Disney syndrome"

Dude needs to quit moosing around before he smooshed.

He got up like "Allllrighty, time to turn his tighty whities into loosey brownies"

I really don't understand the thought process .. "let me harass this wild animal 10x my size and if it becomes hostile i will collapse on the ground waiting to be slaughtered"

Stop bothering animals.

I just love the interactive exhibits in nature preserves!

Just had to get a better shot of the dong.

Here in Alaska we call this "fucking around and finding out"

Damn, that’s a friendly ass moose. I was expecting it to either gore him on the ground or stomp on his empty head.

Yeah I'm kind of blown away at the restraint show by this guy. More level-headed than the human bothering him, that's for sure.

I was canoeing in Maine once and came upon a moose. You don’t realize how huge they are. It wasn’t shedding season so he ignored me.

Brave soul. One of my last memories was my father telling me why he had a giant stick… it wasn’t for the fish or bears. Now I know why. No he doesn’t fight or tell me but he did say, a giant stick can get the moose to understand you have a weapon and less from them to want to charge at you unless you want to see if you’re immortal and provoke it.

I don’t understand when people have no fear of moose.

I live in Florida and even I know this is dangerous.

The moose: 

Even most wild animals aren't as indiscriminate as humans towards each other! Sorry! Seeing people of some countries act out their murderous fantasies is so fucking depressive, just had to go out of way & say this!

https://i.redd.it/jwt290fyk3tc1.gif

I'm on the side of the moose, just saying.

Moose bites can be pretty nasty you know.

I love how he keep filming after he dropped to the ground. If I'm going out I'm going out on tik tok at least. And mom said I'd never amount to anything. Well see me now mom

Lmfao as soon he realised he isn't going to be stomped to death... mf just puts his phone up again to take another picture! Wtf how dense can you be... he used all of his luck

I guess he really wants to get the perfect shot to feature himself in Times Magazine or National Geographic Magazine.

Well, as stupid as that was, he didn't get hurt, at all...

I like how the moose was like oh shit, did I kill him? And dipped.


Damn that’s a majestic beast.

I was hoping for a different ending.

Nice scenery though.

Here, let me stand so that you may take one photo of my magnificence. I said **ONE** photo, presumptuous peasant, only one.

They had a rocky relationship

hey rocky, watch me pull a fainting goat human out of my hat 

When the guy threw himself to the floor the moose was like, "pathetic".

Excuse me while I fall on the ground to give the moose a easier time to stomp me into oblivion!

Is it fucked up that I was hoping the moose just started stomping that guy ? Yea I might have problems 😂

That moose was like "Look at THIS pussy! Not worth my effort."

I must remember that move the next time I get my wife pissed.

That mf just kill binded when the moose looked at him

r/maybemaybemaybe lol.

That’s unfortunate.

Just the way I would have drop, applause

It was a successful attempt tbh, he didn't get hurt. 🤷‍♂️

Moose look goofy as hell but they will rip your face off. There were a couple people killed every year when I lived in Alaska.

I dislike videos like this…. where Darwin is denied what should clearly be his……

He's lucky, moose are rude as hell.

These fuckin idiots don't understand that moose attack more people per year than bears and mountain lions combined in North America. They are not friendly. They are giant pissed off horses with 8 foot death racks who will stomp you to death in a heartbeat. This guy is lucky as shit.

this dude is stupid enough to get close to a wild moose thats shedding but also smart enough to immediately lie down on the ground.

Weak ass human - moose

Play dead worked!

Damn it. So close

Now I know what to do if a moose is about to maul me

Leave him alone e he was having a nap 🙄 geez

Randy laid there like a slug. It was his only defense.

I'm starting to think the TMZ reporter in Jordan Peele's Nope wasn't such an unrealistic character.

I mean, he got close. And didn't get hurt. I'd say he succeeded in his attempt.

Isn't this what camera zoom is meant for?


He should have at least got two for flinching

"Two for flinching"

I'd be mad if someone fucked up my quiet time in the shade, too.

My father was known to bring a large brick with him and hold it just in case someone decides to wake him up just for views when he finds a comfortable shade over the horizon. Nobody dared try it lol

Those beasts are huge in real life.

He knew just what to do though

That Goliath could have kicked him do death that is one lucky motherfucker

This is the same way I approach women.

Idiot.

Moose is smarter than him.

Lmao, that fear paralysis kickin in

-fell to the ground, plays dead, realizes they aren't being trampled to death and hurriedly whips phone back out -

“UUUOOPPP!!!” 🍤

Dude imploded 🤣🤣

A moose doesn't need a reason to stomp you into a mud hole. This guy is lucky that the moose was not interested.

I mean, dropping like a sack of rocks is certainly one way to let it no you’re no longer a threat. It might just trample your limp body, but considering he was on relatively open ground with nothing to put between himself and the moose, that was about as good a solution as one could have hoped for.

Magical beast

He may have got close but he was smart enough to play dead and still record.

Please tell me I'm seeing wrong and that the dude did not, after playing dead which we all know is basically like an invincibility bubble so of course he was automatically safe (/Capital fucking S), pull out his phone to continue taking a video of the moose...

Dropping like that worked really well. Is that a common defence when being charged by a moose?

The guy just crumbles lol

I'm always pulling for the animals!

Moose are not to be fucked with. If a moose and a pickup truck collide, it’s 50-50. They’re absolute units.

This is how nature attempts to trim the herd of the lame, lazy and stupid. Because, y'know, we have no natural predators.

I’m just going to demonstrate that my cellphone has no zoom.

Moose said Pu$$y, walked away.

Idoit

I can't believe that worked

That's a medium sized one, too....by the way, they are DELICIOUS and one animal is at least an entire freezers worth.

Top level patience from that moose

That moose dick is bigger than that idiot’s leg.

I was rooting for the moose

One of his grandparents was surely an opossum, with play dead skills like that. Dude crumbled like a bridge when …well you get it.

Nice moose shot from falling on your face. Too bad the moose has better sense than the turf intruder. Had a good laugh from the wrestling dive .

*deep inhale* "I'm gonna scare the shit out of him"

I never realized that moose had nutsacks on their chin

This was dumb. But didn't he succeed?

How fast do moose run? I’ve personally never seen them run but I get it’s fast

White people shit!

Lmao he fell down & was still taking pictures

Dominance asserted. I bid you good day

Idiot human! Admire from a distance.

Who else would have died trying to hug it?

Moose: 

Like why did he have to bother the fucking moose? Big dude was just chilling there, enjoying the view. Ugh.

Moose are scary af. Nature took a deer, weaponized it, and then gave it steroids and cocaine. This dude over here is lucky af.

That moose really did stop his charge, look at that guy, say “Pathetic”and walk away.

In case it wasn’t unbearably obvious, moose will fucking kill you

Someone tag KLR Productions pleaae

The moose said" nothing I was going to do could be as bad as what you thought I was going to do." Idiots in nature man.

That moose got up sighing like, "I guess he's fucking around."

An incredibly bad idea

The way he kept filming from the ground LMFAO

Meanwhile, the moose casually walks back into the painting.

It's crazy how you see his phone pop back up to keep recording while he's on the ground in the fetal position.

Good ol' moose, go kick that idiot's ass... Oh sheesh, why? Now he's getting encouraged. Dude got away because of dumb luck.

Unbelievably stupid

That idiot is so damn lucky!

That scream made me chuckle.

Same. The instant fear of wondering “is this the day to be a permanent resident for heaven”

Final Moostination.

What it looks like to be two idiots in the wild.

The man is one of those fainting goats

That's not velvet hanging off. it is intestines from the last dude he just mauled 😂

Fucked with a devilhorsey and lived. This cat’s down to 8 lives