Giant Moose Shedding their velvet 

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Giant moose shedding their velvet
Thanks for joining us today for this video. If you haven't subscribed to our channel yet, we'd really appreciate it if you did, especially if you love moose! Today we are exploring the beginning of the rut. Most of the year moose do three things…eat, rest, and move between feeding and resting areas. But Every August something magical happens…The rut! Drop Tine, MisMatch and 22 all make appearances in this video.
The first sign that the rut is kicking in is the shedding of the velvet off their huge antlers. It is fascinating that these animals can grow these huge racks each year but once they are done growing for the season, it’s time for the velvet to come off. That is the start of the rut.
This video takes us through those stages of the shedding process. At 1:06 seconds we see the first hint of the velvet splitting on a tine as shedding is about to begin. At 1:15 seconds we see the same bull the next morning start to rake vigorously to shred his velvet into dangles. And finally at 2:45 seconds we see the same bull (on the left) two days later with a clean rack without any velvet left at all. Some bulls are better at it than others. Some bulls may walk around for weeks with strings of dried velvet hanging from an antler point.
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