Momma Moose grows a bit impatient with her baby moose crossing the road. You could tell she was ready to start counting down, and when she gets to 1, that's when things get serious.
You'd be wise to wait for such a large animal to cross the road. If you drive into something like that it's going straight into the windshield and could kill you, very dangerous at night as this is when most fatal accidents happen.
we have no other choice we also want others wait for our children. same. both children from god. its like art what we can see while sitting in a car in there inverement
You don’t realize how big a moose can be till you see one in person. I was traveling on so called “ Moose Alley “ from Skowhegan.Maine to Jackman ,Maine and had the pleasure of see a group of 4 moose cross the road in front of me. They hesitated on the road for a moment, looked both ways and then wondered on. Two of them had to stand at least 11 feet at the top of there backs. Drive slow up in them there woods Please
We have a cabin by a big pond in NH which has a fenced in area for the kids swings right by the driveway. We were having a family gathering years ago in must have been August and a HUGE female strolled right up the driveway and right past the fence. Awe inspiring doesn’t begin to describe that majestic creature. 🫎
@@sarahwentforalemonwedgeand8991 Hey I didn’t have a tape measure and looking upwards up a road and nothing in the distance to gauge against. Damn Sure it was 11’ to the top of their heads !!!
Visiting Farebanks AK, we were told about a story. Of a moose falling off of the Visitors center's grass roof onto a car. Imagine explaining that to your insurance company
This is SO great on so many levels -- the way the mother kept checking the cars ... the way she entered the edge of the woods and then came back to encourage her young 'un ... and the way that little moosie high-stepped across the what-the-heck-is-this-stuff pavement. (If you've ever put protective boots on your dog, you'll see this same walk the first time he/she wears them). I've lost a lot of faith in our species' ability to either feel or demonstrate compassion, so seeing drivers waiting for this little passage to play out was, to say the least, heart-warming. Thanks for posting.
I agree completely with everything you said. I have rescued so many different animals/pets because of an increasing lack of care and respect that animals deserve. Given long enough you can form strong bonds with ANY animal and to me to interact and engage with another species is such a honour. It's also why i became a vegetarian after seeing how animals are treated particularly in the middle east. I understand it happens everywhere but i was exposed to some shocking displays whilst serving in Iraq Nice to know others are as compassionate
I was also glad to see the drivers being patient. I was driving through Vermont a few years ago and saw a bear cub that wasn’t as lucky as this Moose calf. 😢 This sweet calf has a great Momma to watch over him. 🫶
Indeed, its likely has never seen asphalt and was walking like it was going thru mud or thought it was a stream of an unseeable depth. It was cautious to a point of being scared.
@@joyceibanez8207 I just came back to read the comments and saw yours. Sorry, wasn't copying you! (Dog boot thing is dead on the money, though, isn't it? Haha!)
So amazing. The calf really didn't like this new thing: the look, the smell, how weird it felt under their hooves. Kudos to the motorists for being patient.
@0:59 Thank you for backing up your car, to give them more space and less anxiety, that you would provide them comfort for extra time to work it out! Great video 🏆🏆.
Can never forget a massive moose just standing in the middle of the road as I was approaching on a bike at a distance. I wondered why it was just standing there and not crossing completely. I then saw a baby moose coming out of the bushes. What a smart momma! It knew the road was dangerous and just stood there just daring anyone to pass!
I encountered a Mama bear with 3 cubs in the road once. Two of them followed her like Velcro. The third stopped to play in the road. She was just like this Mama Moose, until she totally lost it, went over to her cub and slapped it silly. Poor baby tumbled to the side of the road and moved along with the family. Mamas don’t play around!
Huge kudos to the drivers and bystanders for not interfering or getting out of the car. Female moose with calves are one of the most dangerous animals in the world. They attack anyone they view as a threat and just being in the vicinity of a calf with the mom nearby can cause an attack. Respect them from a distance and let the moose care for themselves.
More importantly, the closer the baby got to the car the more the mom would have felt like the car was a threat. The driver was making sure the mom new that.
Saw that with a turkey family. I don't wanna you can't make me. What made it even funnier. A lady decided to charge past all the stopped cars on the wrong side of the 2 lane road. She did pull off of the road when she saw what the problem was. When we could drive on, no one let her in. 😅
Lucky she was in the car or she would have got ran down 😭🤣 They creep me out more then deer and bears where I'm from lol I've seen way too many that like to chase people. I've been chased by one and seen a lot of other people too. They're little butholes lmao
Many years ago I was driving along the Trans Canada in Northwestern Ontario (aka middle of nowhere) at night when my headlights outlined the shape of a full grown moose standing on shoulder next to my lane. To this day I will never forget how intimidating and somewhat scary it was driving past that monstrosity standing by roadside. I was fortunate it didn't move onto the road.
They're so tall you can't see eye shine. I encountered one just crossing the road on my way to work at just before 5 AM. I saw it's shape vaguely in the dark. I stopped and watched it cross the rest of the way but if I had been distracted that would of gone down very differently. I thought it was a horse at first and was very confused why it was in the road.
Too cute!!! Thanks to the good humans who didn't rush the baby. Momma was having a melt down pacing trying to get her baby across the dangerous road. Slow down and enjoy the world around you today 🇺🇸🙏🍀
My most memorable moments in British Columbia national parks were encounters with moose. I was amazed at the size of these animals and the height at the shoulder of an adult was over 6 foot. The other amazing fact I was ignorant of was their ability to hold their breath under water. I had no idea they could completely submerge for several minutes whilst eating plant tubers on the bottom of lakes. I once hiked to moose lake at sunset and was greeted by a female who had come down to feed in the lake, she trapped me on the wrong side of the lake side and blocked my route out. I took cover behind a tree and waited until almost dark before she started to completely submerge. I carefully timed her minutes under water and made the decision to risk my escape. It was wonderful and I’ll never forget the amazing experience and encounter with that majestic animal.
That was cute. I love how the calf was stepping like someone put booties on him. And the mom basically telling him to stop holding up traffic...very considerate.
Well! It was definitely worth the wait to see that little baby daintily step across the tarmac like that! Bet those drivers were smiling all the way home! ☺️
"I'm not walking on that." I could watch that walk across the asphslt for hours, hilarious. You could tell mama was beside herself with all those cars. Great when humans slow down to cooperate.
That is one FRESH baby, it hasn’t even unfolded yet! Gotta be no more than a few days old. Thankful for considerate drivers like you giving them the space they needed to get across :)
These guys can ruin your car if you hit one! My husband always intalled “deer whistles” on his big rig just to be safe. God bless all his creatures! 😻😻😻🙏🙏🙏
This was so cute. I liked how the Mama Moose kept walking back and forth checking on her baby and how she began to walk up a bit and face the cars as if to say, “I dare you.”
Thanks for this-it made me laugh so much because you can EXACTLY READ what the Mama is thinking, experiencing, and trying to get across to her baby!!!!! Lololol😅
