Moose

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Moose

• By
• Stevie Phelabaum
• November 2007

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Life Cycle

• Mate in fall
• Bull fight for female its called bullfights
• Fussy about birth place
• In spring have baby by herself
• Born with skinny legs
• Grows quickly
• Can run as fast as 35 mph
• Lives to be 20 years old

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Habitat/Shelter

• Northern Scandinavia and eastward through Siberia
• North America, Canada, Alaska, Utah, Colorado,
  Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North
  Dakota
• Lakes and streams
• Wanders from place to place does not have a
  shelter
• Difficult when temperature rises above 80 degrees
• Needs to be near water in summer to cool off

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Diet

• Twigs, water lilies, bark
• Chews bark and twig off trees
• Dips nose in water to tear off lilies
• Sometimes in winter get in groups to dig up roots
  and plants
• Drinks moms milk
• Bushes, trees, buds, tender shoots, mountain maple

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Adaptations

• Poor eye sight, good senses, ears help it sense
  danger
• Strong swimmers
• Swim as fast as six miles an hour in water
• Bell a flap of skin that hangs down from throat
• Antlers grow bigger when born
• In early winter antlers drop off
• In spring new set grows
• First fuzzy skin grows on
• In July they can rub it off using tree
• 6 feet tall and 1,200 pounds
• Calfs color is reddish brown

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Fun and Unusual Facts

• Female does not grow antlers
• Wolves and bears will try to eat baby moose
• Largest member of deer family
• Disease from deer make sick or die
• Largest moose lives in Alaska
• Humans can help by stopping deers disease

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Works Cited

• Moose by Ross
• NatureWorks http//nbptv.org
• World Book 2004