"Matthew L. Martin" > wrote in message
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> Tyler Hopper wrote:
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> > My BIL & SIL were hiking in moose country a couple of yrs. ago. A few days
> > before, somebody was killed by one.
> >
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> Bull moose are very dangerous in rutting season. Cows are very dangerous
> when they have a calf at their side. Staying away from moose in the wild
> is prudent. That said, I've been in a disparate group of people at the
> side of the road watching a sub-adult male eating in a swamp at a
> distance of 20 feet.

It was a cow with a calf. They were walking on a hiking trail minding there own
business when the came around a curve and there they were.

She attacked them. The girl got away but the guy was trounced to death.