Talk:Moose

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inclusion in Category:Urban animals?

I'm not sure the moose could be considered an urban animal. While they are not shy about entering small towns or suburbs, I have never encountered one in an actual city. Where I live on the Kenai Peninsula, they come into towns in winter when the snow gets deep in the hills, and again in the spring when the pregnant cows actually use civilization as cover, because they know that bears and wolves are less welcome around humans than they are, and many of my neighbors have had the experience of getting up one spring morning to find a moose giving birth in their yard. But if you go to major city centers such as Anchorage, there are not moose in the actual urban centers at all, although they do come into the suburbs quite regularly. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, it seems nobody else has an opinion, I've removed the category. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:26, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

True, while a moose or bear will occasionally stray into downtown Anchorage, they rarely venture from wooded areas. It's pretty rare with bears, but it's often common to see a moose around the park strip or the coastal trail, or anywhere else in Anchorage where vegetation is plentiful. I still wouldn't call them an urban animnal, by any means. Zaereth (talk) 22:52, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Population in Sweden

I'm seeing that no one has written on the population of moose in Sweden so i'm going to add some information i've got from http://80.88.126.98/viltvetande/artpresentation/algpopulation.asp they are proffesionals so they should know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dinnemesis (talk • contribs) 22:08, 29 May 2010 (UTC) A summer population is the estimated population at the summer before the swedish hunting season as plenty induviduals are shot.

Citation for the sidebar on moose scat?

While I have seen "moose poop" et al on sale in a number of places, in my experience it's actually chocolate and thoroughly edible. If the real thing is actually being sold, fair enough, but a mention of the "fake" product is probably also appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.28.209.27 (talk) 02:49, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

I've seen both. Candy stores will sell "moose nuggets" and I've even seen a contraption like a little wooden moose, you pull it's head down and "treats" come out of it's backside. I don't know which is worse, buying a bag of actual excrement or eating pretend excrement... Beeblebrox (talk) 16:04, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I can look for citations. The Anchorage Daily News probably did a story at one time. Strangely enough, you can find both kinds, although the chocolate covered "real thing" is obviously a gag gift, mainly sold to tourists around these parts, who buy them like crazy. Little stick figures and "jewelry" and such are all sold as gag gifts. I'd hate to have the job of putting those together, but it's nice to know that someone is industrious enough to make a living at it. Zaereth (talk) 22:41, 24 June 2010 (UTC)