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Moose facts

Cassidy Williams on July 13, 2022

I started watching the show Alone on Netflix recently and I saw a swimming moose, and I was surprised thinking about how the moose was just chuggin...
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Tamás Deme 'tomzorz'

This was the best moosepost I've ever read, 11/10 would moose again

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Michael Tharrington

I really enjoyed this post. 😀

I also really liked hearing the word "moose" over and over again. It's like a moose mantra.

I love that multiple moose are just called moose.

According to this source:

The plural form of moose is not meese because moose was borrowed into English from a native American Algonquin language. The word “moose” is not a native Old English word. Newer English words don’t change the same. Old English words underwent sound changes that leave us with irregular plural forms.

Woot for knowledge! 🙌

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redrambles

"When a human is 5 days old, they just sit there not knowing how to do anything." "Sitting there" is generous because we can't even sit at 5 days old. We just lie there. Utterly useless.

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Cassidy Williams

Moose are really efficient at not sucking compared to us

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J3ffJessie

If I come back as anything in the next life I wanna be a Moose. Moose have the life. Eat and get huge and straight dominate everything. Except killer whales, but I mean not much can take a killer whale so just have to accept inferiority there but overall I like my chances as a moose over a human any day. MOOSE LIFE RULES

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Johnny Simpson • Edited

you never answered the most important question which is, 'is the plural of moose "meese"'?

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Cassidy Williams
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Johnny Simpson

haha crazy didn't even see that

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Ben Halpern

mooselife

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Thorsten Hirsch

Oh... you're talkin' 'bout real moose? I thought of Moose, of course. :-)

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Margo McCabe

This is amazing!

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Ryan Brown

A Møøse once bit my sister...

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Simon Dann

This post did not disappoint.

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Jon Strayer

Thank you. You brightened my day.

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Roger Trosell

Here in Sweden we have nationwide slow-tv in the spring when the moose/elk is crossing a river to get to the summer area.
Check it out :)
svtplay.se/den-stora-algvandringen

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Cassidy Williams

I want a dedicated monitor to stream this constantly 😮

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Angelo Dias

I so much want to read more of these here.

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Ron Newcomb

my reaction: "nah just sitting there takes us a good six months to learn" lol

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Rense Bakker

😂 awesome haha

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Pedro Gonçalves

This is the best post ever!