Originally Posted by
budwom
years ago my wife and I went on a tour(our own private tour, no one else involved), the exclusive point of which was to see moose in the wild. We went in fall rutting season, when the moose get randy...we spotted a huge bull moose a safe distance away, he was snorting and carrying on, and only then did we see, emerging from behind a hill which was MUCH closer to us, snorting bull moose number two...we bolted out of there.
One of the main issues with moose is that their eyesight is crappy, so when they're rutting, they don't know or care that you're a human, you're just more competition. A famous moose researcher from Quebec met her demise in just such a fashion.