Ring video captures a moose shedding massive antlers with one shake | USA TODAY 

hehe first shed? you seen the size? do you know they dont grow so big in their younger years? a young moose would only have 2 or 3 pointed antlers and much smaller, this was an old moose

@@G_Signer Most people in a country without moose have never seen one in person, much less know how they mature.

I think they’re always startled. I’m guessing because it’s only once a year they hear a loud noise when the bone separates from Their skull that it startles them for a few seconds until they realize what happened

this is how surprised i am when my period drops each month

@@tioswift3676 True. Animals are really sensitive to sounds especially wild animals.

I hope you are having a good time with your loved ones and that you are happy and enjoying life.

Woah that's the oldest I've seen in a comment section! Hope you are enjoying your later years relaxed with the people you care about.

​@@curiss3112 I am 75. Happy to be your new record

@@zeldzamezeeslak6082sure and I’m 90

There is at least one other video of this.😉

Imagine you just saw part of your body fall off and you didn't know it was going to happen 😆

@@ThumpertTheFascistCottontail 😆

@@Tan-di7tt oh, come on

@@Tan-di7tt erm.... go and do more research, you have a bit of a dunning kruger affect there

@@Tan-di7tt go connect 50 lbs+ to the end of a 2 inch broom handle, then shake and see if the 50 lbs are still on there. The bone of his antler snapped, by design.

When you stop and think about it, it's not even a year just a few months!

I only learned about this maybe 2 years ago! Amazing.

Living in Florida, I learned something new today. Wow. :)

@@jessikat6692 It's like when people who don't know find out that gators are actually super chill animals less dangerous than a deer.

WHOAAA! they growh that in a year?!

😂. Lol that’s funny , took me a minute, then I laughed.

Nice one!

Perfect comment lol

"Aaahhh! They actually fell off!!!"

Oh this is an EXCELLENT comment 🤣👏

​@@Anomoomin naw I don't believe that at all. Reptiles birds and fish maybe. But mammals seem to have some emotions going on. There's not really a conclusive way to determine if something is self aware or not. Tho that hasn't stopped scientist from trying.

@@Anomoomin I respect your beliefs

@@Anomoomin Great apes, dolphins and magpies are self aware. Rats aren’t but they can solve mazes. Humans are mammals. Period. God is something man made into his own image not vice versa. God made everything in its image because God is everything. Thinking that humans are “God’s favorite” goes a long way to the wanton usurpation and destruction of the habitat this moose is living in and puts it at risk. God cares about us as much as it does that moose. Otherwise it’d stop us from killing each and taking the ecosystems along with us.

Confusion would be the closest to embarrassment since he probably forgot he had em but was confused what he was running from

@@Anomoomin You were explaining great upto the point where you sneakily shoved this Image-of-God small minded ideology into the whole theory as well. Now there is no value in your theory, just bias.

Yes almost all animals with antlers will shed their antlers to be regrown yearly

@@en-gene5389 it's weird.

Nor did he lol

@@en-gene5389 Heyy engene 😂

@@en-gene5389 so do they regrow to be bigger or roughly the same size?

Right?

@@purpleness64 Left?

@@mattfrenden1000 Forward?

Back. My ass and my crack

Back?

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That’s hilarious 😂

😂

Looking around for better signal, now that area was found, he unfortunately broke antennas.

It looked more like it she'ed himself.

Are you assuming it's gender?

Hahaha

@@Cascade_d If he's got a dick, he's not a chick!

@@Cascade_d Do you have something better to do? Such a tool

I too have a large noggin.

dont let the intrusive thoughts win

Jimmy neutron??

What do you mean? You have a big tumor on your head? Or zit or something?

@@0hibiscus0 Iracebeth of Crims??

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"Chiropractors hate him"

"You've been doing this wrong your whole life"

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"Some clients have lost 30 pounds in one night"

Deer, elk, caribou, and moose shed antlers because it’s too cumbersome and dangerous to have them all year when they are primarily for mating and fighting; female reindeer have antlers too and keep them longer to dig out lichen from the show. Antlers are defined by being shed like this. Horns, like those on antelope, goats, and rams are permanent. Pronghorn shed the outer layer of their horns.

@@kathyl9222 Thanks 😃, never knew this 😶

@@kathyl9222 wow! You know your 🦌, 🐏, 🐃, 🐐, 🦏, 🐂 (horns and antlers and stuff!!)

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Elephants shed their tusks every winter.

Saw the ring camera and is like "look at this shit"

He was like 'finders keepers'

Alaskan man? Has mold now

And the icicles.

🤣🤣💀

Nope I’ve gotten collected deer antlers from the woods over the years as an altar tool, I love them. I’ve never seen a moose just pop them off on someone’s driveway like this though, must be northern Canada or Alaska, you don’t see that from the moose around where I live as they generally avoid hunters so avoid humans by proxy. Even deer generally don’t shed outside of the woods very often.

The moose really shook your pre-conceptions about his species' antlers

My dad was a hunter education instructor, so I got to learn all about things like this. Deer shed their antlers after the mating season in the fall, which is when their hormones are through the roof. That testosterone helps to keep the bone tissue in the antlers sturdy enough to fight other males. After mating season, their testosterone lowers and causes the tissue to become brittle. Climate, daylight, diet, age, and injury can also control how early bucks or male moose shed their antlers. I don't remember all the scientific terms, but it has something to do with calcium deteriorating near the point where the antlers meet the head. Obviously, that fragile point bears the most weight, so the whole antler breaks off at that area fairly easily.

@@azureflametarot There are videos made specifically on antler hunting! 🦌 Along fence lines is one of the best, they’ll shed antlers when they land from jumping that fence. Also in snow caves under evergreens-it’s just fascinating.

For O.P., they shed the fuzzy new antler covering in the early summer, scraping them against shrubs and trees. One shrub on my sister’s property is seen to have bloody strips of velvet hanging off it every year.

Vulnerable or only happy that he doesn't have to help any smaller male moose get rid of their antlers soon enough to survive the coldest weather of the year while pawing the snow with their hoofs to look for food or while trying to eat the bark off of trees?

Because bull moose are huge lol

Probably feels like nothing for the moose. They can crush full sized SUVs.

Or naked - seems like it would be helpful to have them

@@sarahfaith6531 they’re just for show and his place in the hierarchy during breeding season. They shed them in winter to conserve energy.. they can weigh 60lbs. I’m saying for perspective the moose is huge but just standing there it’s hard to tell how big. The husband is not a small man and when he’s holding the antlers up I can see how huge they really are.

Male moose can weigh 800-1,500 pounds. They can grow to be 5 to 6.5 feet from their hooves to the their shoulders.

Lol 😅..

That most definitely was not his first shed. That bull has shed antlers multiple times through its life. Not a chance that was his first time.

@@BoworBustOutdoors don't they get larger each shed?

I thought it was executed so well he must've done it a few times.

I’d bet that was his 4th set

It was definitely not his first shed since a yearling moose only has two to three points and small antlers altogether.

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Are you assuming it's gender?

@@Cascade_d And what if it is a male moose?

@@Cascade_d only male moose has antlers

@@Cascade_d no assumption, fact.

@@Cascade_d yes

real funny my guy

Well if something that big falls off your head I’d be a bit concerned myself, so I think you have every right to be scared.

Don't we all?

@@MLJenkins 😂

I got scared when I circ umsized, it shot off like rubber band

exactly... evolution in play

@Pure Blood LMFAO

@Pure Blood lmfao wtf

@Pure Blood no way that was its first shed

@Pure Blood Yeah everything's a f****** Disney film.

looked more like a kitty getting frightened by its first loud fart

It's crazy to think how many humans wouldn't be alive if we lived like other animals do. Lol

he was just dancing bro no thought behind those eyes

Can you make crafts with those antlers or are they displayed just as they are?

U can make craft by carving or painting pictures on Antlers . U can make a chandelier or use is for furniture . But I prefer my Christmas tree 😎🇨🇦

@@georgeblanchard5278 nice. Its ivory but without killing the animal.

@@kaizenman6443 antlers are modified bones. Ivory is a modified tooth. Quite different.

wow... never heard of a shed hunter.... is it money in it? what do u normally do with them? wod love to see a video of the final results...

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We have the same name lol

Something I've never seen. I wouldn't have believed if it hadn't been captured on video. So amazing.

It's not always that clean but yeah. They also shed the velvet that grows over the antlers. But that makes them bleed alot. It doesn't look pretty

Antlers shed, horns don't.

Fun fact, antlers grow in a single season (spring to fall) and are dropped in winter. Moose grow the largest antlers in a season

Right I would of started crying thinking he is hurt or sick and in need of help

Wait until you see that antlers can grow a velvet coat and then become covered in blood as that same coat sheds. :)

@@RaeneTheFaerie oh hell no I would of really freaked out so is it like the type of them have regular ones and the others have the ones with the velvet?

FR! They are so dumb, and so i am.

ONLY females keep their antlers all year long. So, those flying reindeer with Santa at Christmas? ALL GIRLS! LOL. Have a GREAT week!

@@monie1527 female moose don't have antlers, that's only caribou

@@whateverbro9955 THANK YOU! NOW, I remember the entire documentary and am looking it up again because it was so interesting. OLD, but interesting. It was actually about indigenous people and their animals were FASCINATING!

Was this moose a girl? It shed its antlers after Christmas haha

@@jacksongatlin5418 Caribou

Teeth falling out scare children, but its natural, normal and painless for deer, elk and moose to shed antlers

+1. For once the algorithm didn't push something divisive and retarded.

I always thought so also anytime I seen them somewhere I would get so mad and upset bc I thought they killed the animal

LOL City folk. They shed them every winter.

@donotsupportterroristgrouos: You can go online and order faux antlers for decorating and craft projects. They're good to place on Christmas trees as they weigh considerably less than the real ones.

@@rm71991 Who hurt you?

@@rm71991.....dork 🙄🙄

Having a beard is manly, shaving is for little boys.

My head is falling apart! ... No wait. Lucky it wasn't my balls... Moose thoughts.

Are you assuming it's gender?

@@Cascade_d Only male moose have antlers. What are you, three years old not to know that?

Why would we if we don't live with moose's 😂😂

We don't have any meese here. 😅

I just hear a loud slushing noise and every color reverses. Or goes to black and white. My poor brain slush.

It falls out? 😂

@@janicem9225 You got it Capt'n

They can be hard to find. The bast places to look are by fences, or downed tress. Tree scrapes too

You've never found any because the guy in the vid keeps snatching em

I trained my dog to find sheds lol in Idaho we grew up shed hunting in the summer time. Mule deer, elk, moose they all do it and you can make good money selling them

@@Aygostface ROdents eat them for the calcium. So do other animals. That's why deer/moose antlers sometimes disappear.

@@emilyelizabethbuchanan998 Thanks for the knowledge 👍

Always a Mr. Knowitall.

Everyone wasn’t blessed with your life. Acknowledge you were lucky to be exposed to nature and chill out.

@@hesayshesayhowboutmesay it doesn't take exposure to nature to understand that antlers are shed. It takes paying basic attention in elementary school

Moose are a species of deer