Curious Swedish Moose

The Moose is a member of the deer species, in fact it is the largest of them. They reach 170 – 210 cm height at shoulder and can weigh up to 850 kg. The pictures I took show a curious looking female moose in Sweden. Female moose in Sweden often reach an age of 10 or even 20 years. Male mooses normally don't grow old beacuase of the intensive hunting. There are still more moose in Sweden per square kilometer than in any other country in the World.

There are 400,000 moose in Sweden before the hunting season, 100,000 are hunted so that about 300,000 remain during winter, and some 100,000 are born each spring. However, these figures are not exact. Definitely the population has decreased a lot since the 1980’s when the population was larger than ever.