Moose crossing.
No one likes being held up in standstill traffic. A good day can quickly be ruined by a traffic jam that adds onto your travel time. However, if the hold up is due to an adorable family of moose (I want to say “meese” so badly), that’s a little bit easier to deal with.
If you’ve never seen a baby moose before, prepare yourself. They are some of the most disproportional creatures on the planet. Though they look awfully wobbly, moose calves are able to stand on their own the day that they are born. That, my friends, is incredibly crazy.
The growing up process for young moose is a quick one. Since they can stand up right out of the womb, they are also generally quick to pick up on other moose-related activities. By the time they are five days old, most young moose are able to run at speeds that would be faster than that of a human being. And around one or two years old, the mothers send their offspring on their way to face the real world on their own.
In this video, these moose calves are still following along closely with their mother. It’s a good thing they were too, since the family of wild animals needed to cross a busy road in Canada. Luckily for them, the cars that were driving along the highway threw on the brakes and put it in park to allow for the moose to safely make their way across.
One by one, the mother moose and her two calves ran across the asphalt. The young one in the very back hilariously let out higher pitched shrieks as it jogged and tried to keep up with its mother and sibling. That might be my favorite part of the whole video… besides the fact that I can’t get over the alien-like appearance of baby moose.
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