Moose a Beautiful and Wonderful Animal

in #nature6 years ago

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Moose are large even-toed herbivorous mammals, the largest of the deer family.
Moose vary in size and shape. Their colour varies from a little brown to a dusty black depending on the season and age of the animal. Calves, in comparison, are often a light rusty
colour.
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Moose have long, lighter-colored legs
with the front pair longer than the hind ones Other features include a long nose, drooping lip, hump at the shoulders and small tail. The flap of skin that hangs beneath the throat is called a BELL Males weigh on average over 550 kg (1200 lbs) and females often more than 400 kg (900 lbs). New born calves weigh around 15 kg but quickly.
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Increase in size, around 300 or 400 pounds by its first winter. Height at the shoulders generally ranges between 6 V2-7 V2 feet (over 2 metres)
Only the males have antlers, massive flattened ones averaging 160cm across and 20kg in weight These antlers have as many as 30 TINES (or spikes), the shape differing from animal to animal. A young moose's first pair of antlers
grow from two tiny bumps on their head that they have had from birth Mature males shed their antlers once a year in November/December and replace them with new larger ones in the Spring A moose's teeth are specially designed for eating plant materials
and for browsing on bushes and small trees.
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In all they have 32 teeth made up of 12 ridged molars, 12 premolars, 6 incisors and 2 canines:
Moose have 27 pairs of chromosomes compared with 23 pairs in humans.

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