Safe to say the moose rules the roost around those parts.
I’ve seen my fair share of outdoors videos, and this one is as unique as they come. Typically, if a moose and a bear crossed paths out in the wild, it would be advantage bear. Moose are often on the menu for hungry bears, though the apex predators tend to go for smaller and younger moose if they can.
The moose in this video is neither young nor small…
Moose are the largest of all deer in the deer family, and their height and weight might surprise you. Males are typically bigger than females, with bull moose usually standing at 6 feet tall at their shoulders and weighing up to 1,400 pounds.
The one in this clip was definitely up there in size, which is why I’m guessing that the bear decided to get the heck out of dodge. Either that or the bear and the moose had some prior bad blood that ended in the moose’s favor. Whatever the reasoning was, you rarely ever see a wild animal win a fight with just a look.
As you’ll see in the video, the bear is wading in the water – perhaps cooling off or looking for some fish – when a towering moose turns the corner and looks right at it. Instead of trying to pick a fight, the predator that usually wouldn’t shy away from testing the big ol’ animal (and potential dinner) decided to simply see itself out.
I’m a huge fan of how the bear just kind of moseys out of the water. The sizable moose stared it down from the shoreline, and the swimming animal got the message loud and clear. This was no longer a bear-friendly wading area. This watering hole belonged solely to the moose, and the bear wasn’t in the mood to challenge that whatsoever.
And I like to think that the moose was probably thinking something along the lines of, “Yeah, that’s right” as the bear paddled out of the water towards the shore so that it wouldn’t be a nuisance. Something tells me that this moose has let plenty of other animals in the area know that it’s a force to be reckoned with.
If a bear gets that message, and responds like this, then you already know this particular moose reigns supreme:
Yeah, that’s “aight I’mma head out” energy if I’ve ever seen it.
Like I said earlier, it’s not usually commonplace for a bear to tuck its tail (a short one, but still a tail) between its legs and run away from an encounter like this. But in the water, it’s a bit of a different story. I don’t blame the bear for deciding to let this one pass. It looked as though it was just trying to relax, and it didn’t have any interest in fighting the larger animal.
Which had social media users responding in the comment section with observations like these:
“That bear’s like ‘See ya!'”
“He’s smarter than the average bear.”
“Lesson obviously learned… don’t mess with a moose on loose!”
“Bear hit him with a, ‘I was just leaving.'”
“Bullwinkle wins this one, Yogi is gone.”
“Bear knows to just get out of the way.”
